From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-15T12:20:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19751] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:19711] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self"
    on 01/08/15, Ned Konz <ned@bike-nomad.com> writes:

|My discussion of archives was in a different context: that of changing 
|classes of objects. I see lots of problems with doing this in Ruby, which is 
|why I have been pushing for become(), which would be a cleaner way to do this 
|in Ruby (or in Smalltalk).

I've once read the pater titled "become considered harmful", but I
can't find it now.  Anyone know the pointer?  OOPSLA?

							matz.