On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:26, Charles Nutter <redmine / ruby-lang.org> wrote: > Issue #4264 has been updated by Charles Nutter. > > > I like #to better as well, but isn't it too generic a name, sure to conflict with libraries > out there? Two-letter method names make me uneasy. How about obj.cast(Class)? Or cast_to / cast_from, as in Jonas Pfenniger's patch. mathew [ Not a big fan of attr_* either ]