From: Walton Hoops <walton@...>
Date: 2009-11-09T03:49:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby doesn't implement x++ for Fixnum's because ???

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bascule@gmail.com [mailto:bascule@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tony
> To reiterate from my previous message, because the behavior of Numerics
> is already a special case to begin with.

How? Because they are immutable? That's not special casing, that's just
how the class is designed.  I can write an immutable class in Ruby,
without any special casing.