From: "Eregon (Benoit Daloze)" <redmine@...>
Date: 2012-10-27T22:20:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:48472] [ruby-trunk - Feature #3222] Can bignums have singleton class & methods?


Issue #3222 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze).


ko1 (Koichi Sasada) wrote:
> How about "Freeze" all of Bignum instance?
> 
> It is big change, but I believe no impact on it.

It makes sense to me to have them frozen, but I think we would need to freeze all Numeric instances as well for consistency (currently, Fixnum, Rational and Complex can have ivars).

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Feature #3222: Can bignums have singleton class & methods?
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/3222#change-31801

Author: marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)
Status: Assigned
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: core
Target version: 2.0.0


=begin
 Fixing up the rubyspecs led me to the following:
 
   bn = 1 << 100
   class << bn
     def foo
       42
     end
   end
   # => TypeError: can't define singleton method "foo" for Bignum
 
   bn.define_singleton_method(:foo){42}
   # => TypeError: can't define singleton method "foo" for Bignum
 
 On the other hand...
 
   module Bar
     def foo
       42
     end
   end
   class << bn
     include Bar
   end
   bn.foo # => 42
 
 If Ruby won't allow singleton methods for Bignum, then shouldn't it disallow access to the singleton class completely?
 
 See also issue #601
=end



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