From: Chris Pine <chris@...>
Date: 2005-12-30T17:57:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Fixnums can have instance variables? Cool.

On 12/30/05, gwtmp01@mac.com <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:
> Am I the only person with their jaw on the ground?

When I discovered this, what surprised me was not so much that you
could do this, but that can do this _even_though_ you can't give them
singleton methods (or access their singleton classes).

I just assumed the reason was because the singleton classes are stored
in some structure that immediate values don't have, but that instance
variables are stored separately in some other way.  (I never looked at
the interpreter source to verify this, though.)

So the question in my mind:  Is there a reason we couldn't do that
with ints, too?

Chris