From: GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@...>
Date: 2002-10-02T02:43:22+09:00
Subject: Re: thoughts on typelessness

At Wed, 2 Oct 2002 02:31:39 +0900,
Paul Brannan wrote:
> > > >     "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 :)
> 
> But Float(xyz) is not easily overridable for new types.  I think I'd
> like to see a to_flt that defaults to using to_f, but for Strings will
> do error checking (see RCR#109).

Hmm, the name to_flt looks to be called by "%f" % obj.  How about
to_array, to_hash, to_integer and to_string for the name of default
dispatch of Array(), Hash(), Integer() and String() respectively?

-- Gotoken