From: Sammy Larbi <sam@...>
Date: 2006-10-03T00:36:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Why can't Ruby automatically cast variables?



Joe Ruby MUDCRAP-CE wrote:

>One thing that annoys me about Ruby is that casting variables is 
>required:
>
>i = 5
>a = 'logan'
>
>puts a + i.to_s
>
>Or
>
>a='2'
>b=3
>
>puts a.to_i + b
>
>Why can't (or can?) Ruby just handle 'puts a + i' or 'puts a+b'?
>
>  
>
How would it know whether you wanted to concatenate the two, or add them?