From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-01-31T11:50:34+09:00
Subject: Re: (the diff) Re: TypeError verus NoMethodError

Hi,

In message "Re: (the diff) Re: TypeError verus NoMethodError"
    on 02/01/31, "Chr. Rippel" <chr_news@gmx.net> writes:

|> Plus alternative point:  It may be better to make singleton.rb to
|> raise TypeError for dup and clone.
|
|True ... 

I think I will go for this.

|> Could you tell me bit more about this?
|
|It would a bit more functional flavor to Ruby - for example we could write
|
|class  Fixnum
|    def fac()   (self-1).fac  end
|end
|
|def 0.fac()  1 end

I see.  It's little bit hard in the current implementation, without
causing performance penalty.  I'd like to have them if there's a good
implementation possibility.

							matz.