From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-02-27T22:44:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Enumerable#zip(aRange)  does not work ?

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:38:36 +0900, Emmanuel Touzery wrote:
> Simon Strandgaard wrote:
>>Why isn't usage of 'to_a' and 'to_ary' consistent?
>>
[snip]
> to_a is for manual conversion, that you call yourself (explicit conversion)
> to_ary is called automatically by the runtime if necessary (implicit 
> conversion).
> 
> it's the same for to_s and to_str.
> 

I wasn't aware of this convention.  

Is there any documents where I can read more about this?

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Simon Strandgaard