From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-16T11:05:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19852] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:19819] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self"
    on 01/08/16, Ned Konz <ned@bike-nomad.com> writes:

|That's interesting. Doesn't this change the class of a?

Ah, yes.

|a = "abcd"
|def a.something;  end
|
|If so, it would seem that the system already deals with objects that can 
|change classes (because singleton classes can be constructed on the fly).

This is the case "become" safe.  But I can think of many examples of
crashes caused by "become".  Even simple "Array.become Hash" would
cause segmentation fault.

							matz.