From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2005-09-09T02:37:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Lexical Casts with Ruby

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:09:32AM +0900, Eric Mahurin wrote:
> so you could do:
> 
> "10".to(Integer) # 10
> String.from(10)  # "10"
> 
> If this is a good solution for you, maybe an RCR for this more
> general conversion mechanism is in order.

See RCR#280.  The implementation is 34 lines long.

Paul