From: Bulat Ziganshin Date: 2002-10-15T15:20:52+09:00 Subject: Re: final in ruby Hello Massimiliano, Monday, October 14, 2002, 11:52:36 PM, you wrote: >> PH> The whole nature of Ruby would have to be changed if this feature was >> PH> added to it. And all you would have is Java by another name. MM> Admit it: you're learning 'test/unit' and are waiting a green bar on MM> assert_equal(limit, people.patience). i think that answers "whole nature of ruby would have to be changed" have no meaning. as you can see in this particular case, "whole nature of ruby" already include such feature for entire class/module. so i will laugh each time when i see such argument -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@integ.ru