From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-07-29T01:34:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols are your friends

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Aleks Kissinger wrote:

> So this makes sense, though nothing about the naming convention of these
> methods makes this particularly clear.  However, this brings up the
> question:  If something acts exactly like an integer method-wise, whats the
> benefit of explicitly calling to_int?  This seems like a non duck-typey
> thing to do.

- it might be faster to actually have an int

- you can fail early by filtering on one 'category' of behaviours guaranteed
   by having an object respond_to? 'to_int', this is not unlike type or
   interface checking

-a
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