From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-11-26T08:47:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Fixnum#clone and Float#clone raise different exceptions

Hi,

In message "Re: Fixnum#clone and Float#clone raise different exceptions"
    on Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:49:20 +0900, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:

|4.clone -> 4 sounds better to me, but I must be missing something.

Do you accept the following behavior?

  a = 4
  a.instance_eval{@a=5}
  b = a.clone		# b = 4
  b.instance_eval{@a=10}
  a.instance_eval{@a}   # @a = 10

Similar thing can happen for a Float and singleton methods.

							matz.