From: Luke Graham <spoooq@...>
Date: 2005-05-06T12:07:41+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR 303: nil should accept missing methods and return nil

On 5/6/05, John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz> wrote:
> I expect if this is accepted to see a bunch of knock on RCR's, namely
>   nil+n == n
>   nil * 7 == 0
> -nil == 0
> 
> We already have
>   nil.to_s == ""
>   nil.to_i == 0
>   nil.to_f == 0.0

This would be a big change to behaviour and a lot of existing programs
could have problems with it. Because integers already have a to_i(),
its possible to do this...

x.to_i + 3

and have it do what you want.

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