From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-06-25T23:23:26+09:00
Subject: Re: No exceptions from String#to_i

Hi,

In message "Re: No exceptions from String#to_i"
    on 02/06/25, Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@cc.hut.fi> writes:

|Since it seems that core Integer, Float, String and Array are sort
|of core classes in Ruby, it might also be nice to redefine Object's
|to_s, to_i, to_f and to_a to call the long form if it exists. This way the
|long form would give the short one for free.

I don't think it's needed.  It slows down the performance.

							matz.