From: Brian Candler <lists@...>
Date: 2012-08-18T16:38:37+09:00
Subject: Re: extending class, namespace question

Jan E. wrote in post #1072542:
> A Ruby integer is always an instance of the built-in classes ::Fixnum or
> ::Bignum. You cannot have different integers depending on the
> surrounding module.
>
> This is actually a good thing, because you certainly don't want such
> elementary objects to behave context-dependend.

I think that's exactly what the proposed ruby 2.0 "refinements" are 
intended to do.

http://yehudakatz.com/2010/11/30/ruby-2-0-refinements-in-practice/

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