From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-09-30T23:08:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Operator Overloading <<

On 9/30/05, Bob Hutchison <hutch@recursive.ca> wrote:
> On Sep 30, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > inheriting from certain of Ruby's
> > core classes is enough of a problem that you do *not* want to do that.
> What classes are difficult? Seriously asked. It would be very useful
> to know.

Previously named: Array, Hash, and String are the most problematic. In
implementing PDF::Core versions of these types, I used Delegate. I
also did the same with Symbol.

I'd say that subclassing anything that is written in C is likely to be
difficult and have surprising results.

-austin
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