From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-04-03T01:15:09+09:00
Subject: Re: parent of TrueClass, FalseClass

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:34:20AM +0900, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> i realize ruby is moving more towards duck typing.  but considering that - how
> to you duck type a truth value?  i mean, which method must something
> respond_to? in order to be a bool?  could it be useful if there was one?

Object#to_bool has been suggested quite often

see
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/12094

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