From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-01-04T22:12:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Little Things

Hi --

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Rob Sanheim wrote:
>
>> I bet once they saw "send!" in the docs or in irb they would
>> immediately know how it works.  Its aligns perfectly with many other
>> things in the std lib, and fits perfectly with POLS.
>
> agreed.
>
>> As for protecting from people overriding it, I think having the
>> underscore forms is enough.  YSYEO ("You'll shoot your eye out.")  I'm
>> sure there are programs were object_id and other meta-methods  are
>> overridden.  All you can do is warn people against doing it, test your
>> code, and of course choose libraries that behave well.
>
> alternatively, it can be externalized so no matter how hard you muck about
> with objects you cannot break certain unalienable behvaiours we desire them 
> to
> have.

Do you really think no one will ever do:

   def Pervasives.send
     # ...
   end

? :-)


David

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