From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2005-11-17T09:15:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposed RCR: Object#replace

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Austin Ziegler wrote:

<snip>

> does. Yes, I think it should be that restrictive -- exact match only.  This
> isn't #become, it's #replace. This isn't typecasting, it's replacing the
> internals of one object with those of another object OF THE EXACT SAME KIND.
> (Granted, singleton objects tend to confuse things, but this is closer to
> the behaviour of #dup than of #clone.) The behaviour for this is relatively
> well-established by the #replace implementations on the internal objects
> Array, Hash, and String.

i like the idea.  why not make it more generic and have semantics for a

   class Object
     def reinitialize other = self
       ...
     end
   end

paradigm/hook.  a copy ctor sort of thing.

??

-a
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