Christoph wrote:

> I have been biten by this (and other) unexpected implicit #to_i
> call(s) myself. OO-philospical issuses about the validity of adding a
> RomanInteger class to the Numeric class hierachie aside, if you are
> willing to beat the barbwires around extending the Integer class you
> can construct such a RomanInteger class as a subclass of Integer.
> (The script probably requires 1.7)

Thanks.  This helps, although it is unfortunate that such a hack is 
required.


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