Issue #5220 has been updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh). Status changed from Open to Rejected There is no feedback or revised proposal from OP. I close this as Rejected. -- Yusuke Endoh <mame / tsg.ne.jp> ---------------------------------------- Feature #5220: NilClass#to_i should accept an argument to match String#to_i https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5220#change-25210 Author: postmodern (Hal Brodigan) Status: Rejected Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: core Target version: 2.0.0 I noticed that NilClass#to_i does not accept an additional argument. This differs from String#to_i which accepts an optional conversion base. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/