From: fburton@... (Francis Burton)
Date: 2008-05-20T18:45:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Float() work the same as Integer()?

In article <14527A3C-F9BF-4E8A-9B48-3EA2D2EBE76A@gmail.com>,
ara.t.howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
>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.

Why?

Francis