From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-08-26T01:04:51+09:00
Subject: Re: idea: klass.from_s(str)

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> > i = Integer.from_s("123")

> We already have something like that:
> 
> irb(main):001:0> Integer("123")
> => 123

Yes, but it's a function and it doesn't really do very much more than
#to_i (#to_int when possible) would do,
        nikolai

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