From: Robert Klemme Date: 2008-06-03T00:07:33+09:00 Subject: The dark side of the duck 2008/6/2 Robert Dober : > 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. I felt it was time to change the subject of the thread. ;-) Cheers robert PS: I had to do too much concentrated work today so I HAD to change to silly mode. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- use.inject do |as, often| as.you_can - without end