From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2001-12-11T11:05:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28162] Re: The benefits of dynamic typing?

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:02:13AM +0900, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
> However, I also wonder how one would do the generalisation.  What class
> would I make the change to, in order to catch calls to +() on all objects
> of ANY numeric type?  

Perhaps I am missing something, but doesn't the following do just
that?

class Numeric
  alias old_plus +
  [...]
end

It should take care of Fixnum and Float at least.

Massimiliano