From: "Vinícius Baggio Fuentes" <vinibaggio@...>
Date: 2010-04-25T09:01:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Defining your own typecaster

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I've seen the following declaration, which I think it is valid:

module Kernel
  def Foo(*objs)
    Foo.new(objs)
  end
end

I'm not sure if there's another way one could achieve that, but works for
the purpose.

Vinicius Baggio Fuentes
http://www.vinibaggio.com


On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, how do you define your own typecaster?
>
> Builtin examples
>
> Array(1..5)   # => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
> Integer(5.2)  # => 5
> Float(5)      # => 5.0
>
>
> I would expect it to be something like this
>
> class Foo
>  def self.()(*objs)
>    Foo.new
>  end
> end
>
> Foo(1)
>
>
> But that isn't valid syntax, and I'm not sure what to look up to figure
> this
> out.
>

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