From: Gennady <bystr@...>
Date: 2003-02-03T06:14:20+09:00
Subject: Re: no override

It looks much like the effect of "final" keyword in Java, however 
without an error message. May be useful in some cases.

Thanks,
Gennady.

On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 08:01 US/Pacific, Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 09:35:26PM +0900, Tom Sawyer wrote:
>> On Sunday 02 February 2003 03:34 am, Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:
>>
>> your NoOverloading code looks fantastic!
>>
>> i must say i expected to be told it wasn't possible. awesome that you 
>> were
>> able to put together a nice solution so quickly. thank you. thank 
>> you. thank
>> you. definitely going into my general library of tools. and truly 
>> this (or
>> its kin written in c) should be considered for inclusion in Ruby 
>> proper!
>
> I'm quite happy with that code, as I get to mix some of my all-time
> favorite idioms/features into it ;-)
>  * class instance variables: have been in love for a long time w/ them
>  * singleton methods, especially when added dynamically to a class
>  * nesting a singleton method def inside a method definition
>
> In a three words, _singletons classes rule_!
>
>
> I felt so satisfied to get this to work that I put it in the Wiki
> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?PreventingOverloading
>
> Now comes the important question: why do you need that?
>
> If you find a good use-case scenario, you can start lobbying to get
> people to use it and then convince matz to make it standard and render
> me somewhat famous ;-)
>
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