From: "Chr. Rippel" <chr_news@...>
Date: 2002-01-26T05:32:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Subrange of String subclass => invalid object

>"Bob Alexander" <bobalex@attbi.com> wrote..
...
> Is this the intended consequence? For me it violated the "principle of
> least surprise".

Meaning this violates YMPOLS (your and my POLS;-).  Actually a heavily
championed and accepted recent RCR www.rubygarden.org/article.php?sid=104
is probably responsible for this sneaky type attack.
A general way of dealing with these issues would be the introduction of a
general #become framework - an interesting pointer is [ruby-talk:19856].


/Christoph