From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-12-13T22:31:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28411] Re: The maddening output of Arrays

Hi --

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Hal E. Fulton wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Issac Trotts <ITrotts@IdolMinds.com>
> To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:31 AM
> Subject: [ruby-talk:28395] Re: The maddening output of Arrays
>
>
> > Wow, I didn't know Ruby had been around that long.
> > I only heard about it this year.
>
> It was a secret of the Japanese for a while.
>
> I first heard of it in 1999. At that time, ruby-talk was
> fewer than 20 messages a day if I remember right,
> and there were not many American-sounding names
> on the list (except Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt).
> And actually Dave.kind_of? British #=> true

Surely British is a module, not a class :-)

But hey, let's do this the Ruby Way:

  dave.ancestors.include? British   # => true
  dave.respond_to? :lorry           # => true
  dave.respond_to? :crisps          # => true

# Hmmm, so far so good.

  dave.respond_to? :football        # => true
  dave.football == david.soccer     # => true

:-)


David

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