From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2001-07-25T22:49:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18525] Re: OO question

> I learned on an "OO" language that prevented me from modifying
> these primitives. It took a long time before I realized I was

Being able to modify primitives is NOT necessarily a good thing.  For
example, consider the following Ruby code:

class Fixnum
  def +(other)
    return 3
  end
end

puts 1 + 1             #=> 3

I suppose this is correct, but only for large values of 1.

Paul