From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-01-27T06:55:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is to_a going to be obsolete?

On Tuesday, January 27, 2004, 7:15:08 AM, Paul wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:15:12PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>> I wanted to reserve "to_a" method for Array-like objects, such as
>> Enumerables.

> I thought that was the purpose of to_ary()?

#to_x and #to_xyz are meant to have different semantics (explicit and
implicit conversion, respectively).  So there is room for both #to_a
and #to_ary in Enumerable et al.

Gavin