From: "Mauricio Fernández" <mfp@...>
Date: 2005-11-17T03:04:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposed RCR: Object#replace

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:51:47AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On the Sydney list, Daniel Berger has been asking about a generic
> Object#replace call to work similarly to Hash#replace, String#replace,
> and Array#replace. I see no reason that this could not be implemented
> for all objects. At a simplistic level, this is:
> 
>     class Object
>       def replace(other)
>         other.instance_variables.each do |name|
>           instance_variable_set(name, other.instance_variable_get(name))
>         end
>       end
>     end

What about singleton methods?
Will Sydney relax the rebinding rules?

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Mauricio Fernandez