From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-10T21:31:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19486] Re: Perl/Python/Ruby common backend (Parrot, can Ruby play too?)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:19331] Re: Perl/Python/Ruby common backend (Parrot, can Ruby play too?)"
    on 01/08/08, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> writes:

|>It seems to me this similarity fully extends to the issue you've
|>mentioned.  I don't know enough Ruby to know if it's quite as
|>dynamic as Python (in Python I can, on the fly, change the class
|>to which a given instance belongs to, 
|
|I think Ruby can do this.

Not in general.  Exception is IO#reopen.

							matz.