On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 06:36:59AM +0900, Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Paul Brannan wrote:
> 
> > It's not good to have a standard library feature that user libraries
> > cannot emulate.
> 
> Agreed. Could functional style call to_ary, to_int, to_str and to_flt
> instead?

Couldn't we get type-bound generic functions instead of message passing style calls ?
*blink*

-Martin (not 'serious)