From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-09-10T19:37:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

>>>>> "H" == Hal E Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

>> I agree with you whole heartedly , expect that it really isn't a failing
H> of
>> Ruby itself but the single method receiver model Matz and probably
>> the vast majority of  ``Rubyists''  (imo unfortunately) seem to prefer.

H> This is very interesting to me, as the only OO I know
H> is single-receiver. Can you explain the paradigm? A
H> URL would suffice.

 Look at "parasitic" methods [ruby-talk:17875], but there are very good
 reasons to don't introduce these methods in ruby.


Guy Decoux