From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-07-25T22:59:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18526] Re: OO question

Hello --

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Paul Brannan wrote:

> > 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:

s/Being able to modify/Modifying/  # :-)

A matter of opinion, of course.  I'd rather be able to do this:

>
> class Fixnum
>   def +(other)
>     return 3
>   end
> end

than have isolated exceptions to the openability (?) of classes.


David

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