From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-10-06T05:56:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Why can't Ruby automatically cast variables?

On 9/30/06, Joe Ruby MUDCRAP-CE <joeat303@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

PHP is not to be taken as an authority on anything. Especially Ruby.

(int)$stringvar is casting. stringvar.to_i is *conversion*. The
automatic handling of such conversion is called coercion.

-austin
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