From: Wirianto Djunaidi <ryo_saeba_009@...>
Date: 2002-09-09T14:26:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby


--- Harry Ohlsen <harryo@zip.com.au> wrote:
> > For example, we only have "everything's an object"
> behavior
> > for some math intrinsics and the interface for
> files is a bit
> > strange, e.g., I expected 5.cos
> 
> This one's been discussed a lot before.
> 
> > ...or aFile.rename('toThisName'),
> 
> I think the way to look at this is to think "who" it
> is that does the 
> renaming.  In the case of a file, it's effectively
> the filesystem that does 
> (eg in UNIX, it involves changing the contents of a
> directory file).
> 
> I think it makes more sense to ask the class (ie,
> the thing that logically 
> knows *about* files) to do it ... hence, I feel this
> case isn't surprising.
> 
Totally agree. It's the same case as with the 5.cos
doesn't make sense because cos(), sin(), etc..are not
behaviour of a number in regular sense. Those are
trigonometry functions which applied on those numbers.


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