From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-08-06T18:12:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing a method that's added to both Fixnum and Bignum

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Ohlsen" <harryo@zip.com.au>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 3:46 AM
Subject: Writing a method that's added to both Fixnum and Bignum


> A mate of mine just asked me an interesting question.  He had written a
method
> that extended Fixnum and then realised that he wanted it to work for
Bignum
> as well, but the code is obviously identical.
>
> The only way I could think of to do this was something like ...

(snip and snip)

Hmmm. Maybe define a module with nothing but that in it and
include it in both places?

> But I can't think of how I would coerce the Fixnum into a Bignum.

Nor can I offhand. I never stopped to realize till now
that Bignum does not have a 'new' method.

Hal