From: Joe Ruby MUDCRAP-CE <joeat303@...>
Date: 2006-10-01T09:54:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Why can't Ruby automatically cast variables?

David Vallner wrote:

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Point taken. I can't imagine wanting to do 'logan' + 115 and have it be 
'logans' (as opposed to just doing 'logan' + 's'), but I'm sure there 
are applications for adding ASCII values.

> That's not type casting, that's type coercion. BIG difference.

Hmm, what's the difference? IIRC, PHP's docs referred to (int)$stringvar 
as casting, which seems the same as to_s, to_i, etc.

Joe

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