From: "Stephan Kämper" Date: 2001-07-25T23:15:40+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:18529] Re: OO question Hi. David Alan Black wrote: > > 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/ # :-) Sorry but... Shouldn't it be 'modifying' instead of 'ModifYing'? Not that I claim English to be my native language... Have a nice day/night/dawn/sunset - whatever you time zone is. Stephan