From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-02-18T01:19:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Oppinions on RCR for dup on immutable classes

Hi,

In message "Re: Oppinions on RCR for dup on immutable classes"
    on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:54:42 +0900, Stefan Rusterholz <apeiros@gmx.net> writes:

|Hm, we probably have a different understanding of DuckTyping then.

Perhaps.

|> We haven't implemented a method that can't be executed.  Object#dup
|> just fails if the object is not able to be duped.  Am I missing
|> something?

|I'll try to explain it differently, depict my issue. Say you go to a 
|restaurant, take a look at the card and see "Spagetthi". You order 
|Spagetthi but the waiter just tells you "Oh, we don't serve Spagetthi 
|here.". You'd naturally ask "Why put it on the card then if you don't 
|serve it at all?"

I imagine the waiter telling you "Oh, we don't serve Spaghetti
_today_".

							matz.