From: Christoph <chr_news@...>
Date: 2002-09-09T00:53:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby


"Hal E. Fulton" wrote
....

> My take on this is that we do things like sin(x)
> rather than x.sin out of sheer mathematical habit,
> not based on any compelling logic.

It is just that the deliberate ``non-OO-ness'' of sin(x) etc., makes
these methods harder to use, and in particular reuse, when
basically every thing else follows the OO pragmatism - e.g.
`complex.rb'  essentially breaks the solution  in  [ruby-talk:37162]
for  being able to  write ``x.sin''.

/Christoph