From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-16T13:56:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19858] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:19857] Re: Why not?: Assigning to self"
    on 01/08/16, "Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org> writes:

|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?

I'm not sure.  Replacing ARGV, etc. might be problem.

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

Maybe useful for some cases.  Maybe nightmare for some cases.
"become" is too strong.
							matz.