From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2006-01-05T15:27:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't change the value of self

On Jan 1, 2006, at 5:47 PM, Hal Fulton wrote:

> James Britt wrote:
>> Jonathan Leighton wrote:
>>> Can't change the value of self (SyntaxError)
>>>     self = round_to *args
>>>
>>> Why doesn't it work? What can I do instead?
>> "Destructive" methods must alter self using that self's existing  
>> destructive methods.
>
> To which we should add: Time has no destructive methods, since
> Time objects are immutable.
>
> But someone once created a MutableTime class -- anyone recall
> who/when/where and whether it's complete?

That'd be me, and it's documented at http://phrogz.net/RubyLibs/rdoc/ 
classes/MutableTime.html and available for download at http:// 
phrogz.net/RubyLibs/MutableTime.rb

As to whether it's 'complete'...I dunno. I nominally labeled it  
v1.0.5, but who knows what that means :)