From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2006-09-16T20:54:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby keywords vs methods

Chris Roos schrieb:
> Ok, so this is being pedantic, but that doesn't appear to work if you
> have two separate files, each defining Foo#foo, both being required by
> another script.

Works for me with Ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32] on Windows 2000.

> Although I am interested in solutions to this 'problem', I'd still
> love feedback on the decision of adding keywords to the language.

I cannot answer that. I too think that having less keywords increases 
the flexibility of a language, but there could be other drawbacks, for 
example concerning performance or syntax changes, I don't know. Maybe 
you can get an answer from Matz about this.

Another way to solve your original problem would be to add more hooks to 
the Ruby interpreter.

> Maybe I should break that to another thread with a better subject (any
> suggestions)?

For me the subject is OK, I just wanted to answer the one detail 
question about warnings upon method redefinitions.

Regards,
Pit