There are discussions on jruby-dev about "null casting", and it's a useful
interop feature that IronRuby should support as well. Though there is a
work-around, it's fairly ugly. We've made overload selection from IronRuby a
bit nicer than having to resort to reflection, but it'd be interesting to
drill into this further. I've opened a feature request to track this:
http://ironruby.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=1966
~js

> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Charles Oliver
> Nutter<[email protected]> wrote:
>> This is an important one:
>>
>> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-3865
>>
>> It's definitely not a hypothetical situation, and I have had this come
>> up a few times myself. Perhaps we can have some discussion here or on
>> the bug about what our casting syntax should look like?
>>
>> - Charlie
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