From: eastcoastcoder@...
Date: 2006-03-10T12:18:46+09:00
Subject: Integer(nil) and checking numericality

Why does Integer(nil) return 0?  Isn't the point of Integer to assert
that the arg is actually an integer?  (If we just want a best guess, we
can do '323aaadsfwefsd'.to_i or ''.to_i )/