From: Tobias DiPasquale <anany@...>
Date: 2002-03-31T06:12:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Why isn't Math object-oriented?

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:43:41 -0500, Bil Kleb wrote:
>  Math.sin(number)
> 
> which looks alot like Java.
> 
> What happened? Why did the idiom change?  Why isn't Math implemented as
> a mixin for the Numeric class a'la Enumerable or Comparable or Kernal,
> etc.?

Good question. I tried to do this:

<snip>
class Fixnum
	include Math
end

354.sin
</snip>

However, this failed because all of Math's methods are class methods
This doesn't seem to make any sense, since Math is a Module. Anyone 
know the reasoning behind this one? Matz?

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