From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2004-06-26T01:52:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it considered Harmful?

On Friday 25 June 2004 09:35, Jim Weirich wrote:
> gabriele renzi said:
> > il Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:51:05 +0200, Michael Walter <cm@leetspeak.org>
> >
> > ha scritto::
> >>Another reason would be that it might be useful to change the object _in
> >>place_. That is, all existing references suddenly point to the new
> >> object.
> >
> > in evil.rb (you can find it at rubyforge) you even have Object#become
> > if you need it ;)
>
> Are there limitations on evil.rb's implementation of become?  How do you
> get around Guy's concerns about crashing?

I don't know what crashing he's talking about, really.  I see no reason for 
Ruby to crash unless you, as a programmer, go out of your way to abuse a 
feature like this such that you deliberately engineer a crash.  I can 
deliberately engineer crashes all day long right now, without such a feature.

	Sean O'Dell