From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-02-09T16:30:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01272] Re: Possible bug with coerce

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01271] Possible bug with coerce"
    on 00/02/08, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

|I'm not 100% sure I understand coerce, but I think this is a bug:
|
|   1.coerce(2.5)  ->  [1.0, 2.5]
|   1.coerce(3)    ->  [1, 3]
|   1.2.coerce(3)  ->  [3.0, 1.2]   << is this right?

Well, there's a bug.  But not there.

x.coerce(y) should return [converted(y), converted(x)], so that it
should be

|   1.coerce(2.5)  ->  [2.5, 1.0]
|   1.coerce(3)    ->  [3, 1]
|   1.2.coerce(3)  ->  [3.0, 1.2]   << this is right

I'll correct.

							matz.