From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-04-01T00:14:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Why isn't Math object-oriented?

Hi,

In message "Why isn't Math object-oriented?"
    on 02/03/31, Bil Kleb <W.L.Kleb@larc.nasa.gov> writes:

|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.?

Because

  sin(x)

was the notation I used often.  One of the design princeple of Ruby is
the "conservativeness", which is more important than orthogonality.

							matz.