From: "Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@...>
Date: 2001-08-16T12:53:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19857] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:05:59AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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.

So, are there only problems when objects of class "class" are involved (you
can do really stupid things like "Array.become Hash.new").

If I just use become on "normal" objects (no classes, no modules,...), do I
still have to expect problems?

Yes, I know a "become" which may not be used on all objects is far from
being orthogonal, but maybe still usefull

greetings, Florian Pflug