Feature #8626: Add a Set coercion method to the standard lib: Set(possible_set)

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[saturnflyer (Jim Gay)]

=begin
I'd like to be able to take an object that may already be a Set (or not) and ensure that it is one

For example:

set1 = Set.new
set2 = Set(set1)
set3 = Set(nil)
assert set1.equal?(set2)
assert_instance_of(Set, set3)

This is different from the behavior of Set.new in that it will return the same set rather than creating a new one

set1 = Set.new
set2 = Set.new(set1) # <--- completely new object in memory
set2 = Set(set1) # <--- same object from memory

My thoughts about the implementation are simple:

def Set(possible_set)
  possible_set.is_a?(Set) ? possible_set : Set.new(possible_set)
end

I'm not sure if there are edge cases to unexpected behavior that I haven't thought of and I'm wondering if it ought to have a Set.try_convert as well
=end

[saturnflyer (Jim Gay)]

I've created a pull request for MRI here https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/359

[saturnflyer (Jim Gay)]

This has been merged into ruby trunk in https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/ad78cf4ea8613c7e1790c5e3a2718a35fe32115f

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

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