From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-08-15T03:50:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19719] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self

In article <m27kw6ppf2.fsf@zip.local.thomases.com>,
Dave Thomas  <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:
>Ned Konz <ned@bike-nomad.com> writes:
>
>> >  I don't see the utility to add #become just to change the class of an  
>> object.
>> 
>> How else would you do it in Ruby?
>
>I think what Guy was saying was that he didn't see any need to do it,
>regardless of the mechanism used.
>
>Perhaps if we could see an actual example of where this is needed we
>could discuss this better. I know there was some talk a while back of
>some code that handled (I think) archives or somesuch. Could be see
>the code for this so we could think about it.
>

Also, somebody presented an example of a state machine that would have 
benefited from having a 'become'.  That might also be a good example to 
present here in this thread.

Phil