From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-12-11T11:38:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28166] Re: The benefits of dynamic typing?

HI,

In message "[ruby-talk:28155] Re: The benefits of dynamic typing?"
    on 01/12/11, "Harry Ohlsen" <harryo@zip.com.au> writes:

|You can make this work the way you want (although, you'd have to stick
|this code in a module and "require" it in all your code).  Note that I'm
|not known for writing the simplest version of things, so someone else
|will probably have to clean it up for me (and I've only done the 1 + "1"
|case for Fixnum; it would probably have to be coded more generally to be
|useful) ...

There's the better wasy:

  class String
    def to_int
      Integer(self)
    end
    def coerce(other)
      if other.integer?
	return other, Integer(self)
      else
	return other, Float(self)
      end
    end
  end
  class Numeric
    def to_str
      String(self)
    end
  end
  p "1"+1
  p 1+"1"

Selector namespace would help things like this.

							matz.