From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-05-20T17:16:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is Array#to_f not defined?

Hi,

In message "Re: Why is Array#to_f not defined?"
    on Tue, 20 May 2008 17:05:04 +0900, Fredrik <fredjoha@gmail.com> writes:

|Ruby (1.8.6) seems to be missing numeric conversion methods for
|Arrays :

#to_f converts the receiver to the float itself. 

|class Array
|  def to_f
|    self.map { |i| i.to_f }
|  end
|end

The above code converts the elements in the array.  That should be
named differently.  Surely this is the reason.  Try

  ary.map(&:to_f)

if you have newer Ruby.

							matz.