From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2008-05-29T17:18:02+09:00
Subject: Re: The duck's backside


From: "Mark Wilden" <mark@mwilden.com>
>
> So if I can solve  
> a programming problem simply by asking what builtin class an object  
> is, as opposed to seeing if it responds to a certain method name,  
> knowing nothing about what that method actually does, I'll go with the  
> former.

There are more ducks in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are
dreamt of in your philosophy.

>> require 'delegate'
=> true
>> x = SimpleDelegator.new(123)
=> 123
>> x.class
=> SimpleDelegator
>> x.kind_of? Numeric
=> false
>> x.is_a? Numeric
=> false
>> x.respond_to? :to_int
=> true
>> x.to_int
=> 123


Regards,

Bill