From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2005-10-31T12:17:52+09:00
Subject: Re: determining whether an object is an immediate?

On 10/30/05, Gyoung-Yoon Noh <nohmad@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ouch, except Object:
>
> >> [Object, Fixnum, Symbol, NilClass, FalseClass, TrueClass].each {
> |c| c.instance_eval { define_method(:immediate?) { (Object == self) ?
> false : true } } }
> #=> [Object, Fixnum, Symbol, NilClass, FalseClass, TrueClass]
> >> Fixnum.immediate?
> #=> true
> >> Object.immediate?
> #=> false

But also:

irb(main):007:0> 'string'.immediate?
=> true
irb(main):008:0> [].immediate?
=> true
irb(main):009:0> Array.immediate?
=> true

Yours returns true for everything except Object. The other version I
posted is correct.

Ryan