From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-01-09T05:28:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby?

On Jan 8, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:

> How would you (the community) define meta-programming

Code that writes code.

> open class system

Classes that can be changed (methods added, removed, etc.) at runtime.

> and the dynamic nature of ruby?

That's a lot harder.  :)

I like to think that Ruby does away with much of the compile time vs  
runtime separation and that is a big source of it's dynamic nature.

You will need a better definition than that though, of course...  ;)

James Edward Gray II