From: Hans Mackowiak <lists@...>
Date: 2013-03-06T23:02:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Bignum-Fixnum-Numeric confusion

Robert Klemme wrote in post #1100376:

>> (c) "There is effectively only one Fixnum object instance for any given
>> integer value, so, for example, you cannot add a singleton method to a
>> `Fixnum`." - Couldn't understand the reason of not to add the
>> `singleton` method with Fixnum object instances.
>
> I think the reasoning is flawed: the fact that there is only one
> instance of every Fixnum does by no means prevent associating
> singleton methods with the instance.  For example, it's still possible
> to store instance variables in a Fixnum instance:
>

i need to resay that this is not possible in 2.0 anymore ... so you dont 
should depend on it

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