From: Mark Hahn <mchahn@...>
Date: 2001-12-30T08:28:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29665] Re: promoting self to subclass (was extending method of class A ...)


> Fun that you should post this just after a late reply of mine

Yes, that is quite a coincidence.  You had participated in my thread and
when I saw your reply so close to my posting I was quite confused.

-----Original Message-----
From: Massimiliano Mirra [mailto:list@chromatic-harp.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 2:30 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: [ruby-talk:29659] Re: promoting self to subclass (was extending
method of class A ...)


On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:39:15AM +0900, David Alan Black wrote:
> I'm also wondering whether this is similar to the idea of a #become
> method.  There's been a bunch of discussion on that here in the past.
> In particular, see the thread starting at:
> "[ruby-talk:19517] Why not?: Assigning to self"

Fun that you should post this just after a late reply of mine to matju
on this very subject, containing a long rant---and probably useless,
too, if I am guessing right. O:-) Oh well, really time to check the
archives...

Massimiliano