From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2002-12-13T15:03:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Inheritance Question

On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 14:14:14 +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> From: "Jim Freeze" <jim@freeze.org>
> 
> In effect, you are adding methods to the Matrix class, so why don't you ... ?
> 
>   class Matrix
>     def all_my_wonderful_methods
>       ...
>     end
>   end

I like open classes, and use this feature for my own classes on occasions,
but I am opposed in principle to modifying standard classes. Even
though, one would still have problems since some of the methods you
would expect to return self don't. Thus you cannot chain methods when
you need to.

-- 
Jim Freeze
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