From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-08-26T00:33:02+09:00
Subject: Re: idea: klass.from_s(str)

Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> i = Integer.from_s("123")

We already have something like that:

irb(main):001:0> Integer("123")
=> 123

That's better than #from_s becuse you don't have to specify the type of
the argument in the method name. It's like saying

Integer.from_whatever("123")

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