From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2007-11-20T19:48:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Assignment without attr=

Greg Willits wrote:
>    whatever = PackedNumber.new('12345')
> Or
>    whatever = PackedNumber.new
>    whatever = '12345'  # but I don't want whatever to be String

Given that there is no String#~ this would work:
class String
  def ~
    PackedNumber.new self
  end
end

whatever = ~"12345"

That a "little" hackish thogh ;-)

HTH,
Sebastian
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