From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-05-20T13:32:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Float() work the same as Integer()?


On May 19, 2008, at 9:45 PM, Michael W. Ryder wrote:

> temp = nil
> temp = Float(x) if (Float(x) rescue false)
> if temp == nil
>  temp = Integer(x) if (Integer(x) rescue false)
> end
> if temp == nil
>  x = 0
> else
>  x = temp
> end
>
> As you can see this is much more code, and that is before I add in  
> more code for error handling.

sort of, you can write this

x = Float(x) rescue Integer(x) rescue 0

but be aware, Float and Integer will handle a nil argument differently.



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