From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-11-05T21:54:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby doesn't implement x++ for Fixnum's because ???

Hi --

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Tony Arcieri wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@marnen.org>wrote:
>
>> What semantics do you intend here?  I'm not sure I understand.
>>
>
> You can think of it like:
>
> alias_method :++, :increment!

But what would it mean to send the message increment! to, say, the
object 10? In the same vein:

   >> 10.succ!
   NoMethodError: undefined method `succ!' for 10:Fixnum


David

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