From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-07-25T23:34:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18534] Re: OO question

Hello --

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Stephan [iso-8859-1] K�mper wrote:

> 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'?

(I'm assuming you mean that 'Y' to be a 'y'.)

It should be 'Modifying' because it will be at the beginning of
a sentence, once those other four words are gone.

> Have a nice day/night/dawn/sunset - whatever you time zone is.

10:36 A.M., EDT.  And guten Nachmittag to you :-)


David

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