From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-09-09T03:15:04+09:00
Subject: Re: #to_b - why isn't this one already in there?

On 08.09.2007 18:17, Lloyd Linklater wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> Like this one?
>>
>> class String
>>    def to_b() self != "false" end
>> end
> 
> Not bad but I am thinking that, with people saying that they want to 
> have a wide assortment of what constitutes true, that they should make a 
> list (array) of things which would evaluate to true and anything else 
> would be false.  But that is so individual that making it part of the 
> language seems counter productive.

Yeah, in that case teh Hash based approach seems more appropriate.

Kind regards

	robert