From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-10-31T09:30:41+09:00
Subject: Re: feature idea: custom literals

From: "Nat Pryce" <nat.pryce@b13media.com>


>
> This idiom is used by Ruby already, for example the Integer and String
> functions.
>
> Cheers,
> Nat.

Although I like this idiom (and suggested it myself earier, albeit
Vector[1,2,3]), I find it strange to see method names with capital letters.

That is, when I was first trying to determine how the Integer() function works
(e.g. Integer("0123") -> 83), it took me a significant amount of time and
frustration to track it down.

'ri Integer'         -> Integer class, naturally enough
'ri Kernel.Integer'  -> Integer function

Newbies take note :)

Gavin