From: bruno modulix <onurb@...>
Date: 2004-07-06T04:17:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it considered Harmful?

Gennady a �crit :
> Sean O'Dell wrote:
> 
>>
>> Good question.  I am personally having trouble thinking of a good 
>> reason why a programmer couldn't change the class of an object.  
>> Except for possible problems when a different set of methods suddenly 
>> gets a set of instance variables it might not expect (buyer beware), 
>> it seems like we ought to be able to do that.  I don't believe there's 
>> any solid technical block to doing this, is there?
>>
>>     Sean O'Dell
>>
> 
> It would be nice to have in real life too. Just imagine: you hold an 
> apple in your hand and suddenly it turns into a piece of gold. I would 
> not mind ;-)
> 
*I* would ! Try to eat a piece of gold !-)