From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-03-19T10:18:48+09:00
Subject: Re: can you enable coercion between types?


ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> try this:
>
>      harp:~ > cat a.rb
>      class Duration
>        def initialize seconds
>          @seconds = seconds
>        end
>        def coerce other
>          if other.class == @seconds.class
>            [@seconds, other]
>          else
>            [Float(@seconds), Float(other)]
>          end
>        end
>      end

Could you explain what this is doing? I don't get the effect.

Thanks,
T.