From: Adam Prescott <adam@...>
Date: 2013-03-30T07:22:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Typing?

On 29 March 2013 22:19, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Why use respond_to?(:to_int) for detection if you write x.to_int + y.to_int
> anyway?  That's redundant work and _not_ Duck Typing.

Hm, true. :) I guess there might be cases where you want a specific
error message in the method itself, versus the method's caller? Or
maybe if there are other implicit conversions you can fall back to.
Probably rescue-able. Agreed, though.