From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-06-26T01:27:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it considered Harmful?

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Bill Kelly (billk@cts.com) wrote:

> x =3D "hello"
> x.class =3D OpenGLCanvas
> x.PushMatrix()
>=20
> kind of thing.
>=20
> Should we expect a hard crash here?  If so, is that OK because
> it's "programmer error" and not really Ruby's fault?
>=20
> I haven't done enough Smalltalk to know what #become would do
> in such situations...=20

Smalltalk's classes are better factored to handle such occurances.
Ruby's are not.

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