From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-03-22T04:08:02+09:00
Subject: Re: does Ruby not support multiple "initialize" methods for a class???

On 3/20/07, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

> I wonder what lies ahead.  I mean, look how easy it is to conjure up
> things like attributes and class methods from the building blocks that
> Ruby offers.  The things that get conjured up tend to resemble things
> from other languages -- but maybe there are entirely new constructs
> waiting to arise out of Ruby's components.

This statement reminds me of something Alan Kay said to me after he
had given a talk on Smalltalk at IBM.  He said that one of his
disappointments was that no one ever seemed to make new subclasses of
Behavior (which in Smalltalk is the abstract class which both Class
and Metaclass subclass).


-- 
Rick DeNatale

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