From: GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@...>
Date: 2002-10-02T02:11:24+09:00
Subject: Re: thoughts on typelessness

At Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:37:46 +0900,
Dave Thomas wrote:

> William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@y.glue.umd.edu> writes:
> 
> >     "a string".to_f    # >> 0.0, and no runtime error
> 
> I've always thought this was a bug in the libraries  :)

But we have Float("a string") which raises ArgumentError :)

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