From: Mark Wilden <mark@...>
Date: 2008-05-30T22:25:52+09:00
Subject: Re: The duck's backside


On May 29, 2008, at 1:18 AM, Bill Kelly wrote:
>
> 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

Good point.

///ark