From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata Date: 2002-10-02T12:01:34+09:00 Subject: Re: thoughts on typelessness Hi, Is this syntax '"%f" % obj' new to Ruby? This is something that is borrowed straight from Python, isn't it? Regards, Bill ======================================================================== GOTO Kentaro wrote: > 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?