From: Farrel Lifson Date: 2006-05-28T18:10:15+09:00 Subject: Re: Crazy thought -- Rubyish type conversion? It will make catching exception on type 'conversion' a bit hard. How would you handle: irb(main):001:0> 1.05.to_sym NoMethodError: undefined method `to_sym' for 1.05:Float from (irb):1 Farrel