From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-08-15T01:05:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19701] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self

>>>>> "N" == Ned Konz <ned@bike-nomad.com> writes:

N> There was a discussion earlier here about the usefulness of become: .

 I've read this discussion

N> This also can be used in other cases where the class of an object needs to be 
N> changed on the fly. Although one can use delegation to provide these 
N> semantics, there may be times where the cost in memory and time of the added 
N> indirection is excessive.

 see [ruby-talk:19598]

 I don't see the utility to add #become just to change the class of an
 object. 

 Can someone say me, if this feature is *really* used in Python and what is
 its use.


Guy Decoux