From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-09-10T09:17:39+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 18111-18212

Hi,

In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 18111-18212"
    on 02/09/09, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:

|Someone on irc pointed out that there is an Object#become in CVS now.
|When I look at the source, though, it doesn't look like it does anything
|except raise an exception if obj is frozen or if obj and orig are not
|the same type.  Then it returns the original object.

Because "become" is a method to copy internal state that Ruby
interpreter does not know, the default "become" does nothing but
freeze check.

							matz.