From: Robert Dober Date: 2008-06-02T22:13:22+09:00 Subject: Re: The duck's backside On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:04 AM, David Masover wrote: > On Friday 30 May 2008 08:12:35 Mark Wilden wrote: > >> If classes are not categories, what are they? > > Classes are categories. But not all categories are classes. IMHO this is a gross generalization! I guess that you might indeed use Ruby classes as categories in your designs. I do not know what others do, but the simple fact that I use Ruby classes for other things falsifies your statement. BTW, performance apart, I can perfectly life without classes in Ruby. Cheers Robert