On 5/6/05, Gergely Kontra <kgergely / mcl.hu> wrote:
> To the nil war:
> 
> Then what is the reason nil.to_i and friends exists?
> 
> Will it hide bugs?
> 
> I'm using 1.8, there nil.to_i exists, but
>   a = nil
>   b = 2
>   b+a # => nil cannot be coerced into Fixnum
> 
> So where to use nil.to_i?

b + a.to_i # I might have String, Fixnum, Float, or even nil here...

-austin

> ps: and how can I correctly reply to a message, if I don't get
> mails, but read the mails from the archive?

Either subscribe to the list, or go through the google groups
interface for comp.lang.ruby -- or maybe the gmane interface for the
same.

-austin
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