Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:15818] Re: is it possible to dynamically coerce objects types in Ruby?"
    on 01/05/28, Mirian Crzig Lennox <mirian / cosmic.com> writes:

|coerce is pretty nice, thank you.  It seems that when I use coerce, I
|still have to define operators where MyClass is the left hand side of
|the expression;
|e.g., 
|	4 + myObject 	# This is handled automatically by myObject's coerce
|but
|	myObject + 4	# fails if myObject's class doesn't define '+'.
|
|Is this correct?

Yes.  You have to pay the cost to join Numeric family.

							matz.