From: jonas <jonas.bulow@...>
Date: 2001-05-28T01:27:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15808] Re: is it possible to dynamically coerce objects  types in Ruby?

> Try 'to_int' which is for that particular purpose, not 'to_i' which is
> for explicit conversion to integer.  And when you want something to be
> string, try 'to_str'.

Why is there a difference between to_i and to_int? Is it the principle
of biggest surprise!? :-)