From: Charles Mills Date: 2005-05-06T23:14:28+09:00 Subject: Re: nil.to_? and ruby2.0 Gergely Kontra wrote: > Hi! > > To the nil war: > > Then what is the reason nil.to_i and friends exists? > > Will it hide bugs? > > I'm using 1.8, there nil.to_i exists,but > a=nil > b=2 > > b+a # nil cannot be coerced into Fixnum > > So where to use nil.to_i? > Perhaps your thinking of to_int - which isn't defined for nil and why the above raises an error. > ps: and how can I correctly reply to a message, if I don't get mails, > but read the mails from the archive? > > > Another question of mine: where can I read docs about ruby1.9/ruby2.0? > Shall I DL a snapshot and try it myself, or is there a good doc > somewhere? Seems like there are some bits and pieces scattered accross the internet, but nothing _complete_. Maybe start here: http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?Rite -Charlie > > thx > Gergo > -- > +-[ Gergely Kontra http://www.mcl.hu/~kgergely ]------+ > | PhD Student (Room:IB113) PGP ID: 0x7E3846BF Mobile:(+36 20)356 9656 | > | Budapest University of Technology and Economics ICQ# 175564914 | > +------------- "Olyan langesz vagyok, hogy poroltoval kellene jarnom!" -+