From: Michael Vondung <mvondung@...>
Date: 2004-01-24T09:19:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is to_a going to be obsolete?

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 02:25:59 +0900, Patrick Bennett
<patrick.bennett@inin.com> wrote:

>Hmmm, thanks, but it's a bit 'non-obvious' to casual Ruby programmers 
>(who will have to understand my code).  'to_a' is pretty darn clear.  :(

As one of those who use Ruby casually, I wholeheartedly concur. to_s
and to_i were among the first things I learned, so to_a always made
perfect sense to me. [ *o ] may make more sense to more experienced
programmers, but it merely seems more cryptic to _me_. :)  Anyway,
isn't that a bit inconsistent?

M.