From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-11-25T00:10:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6575] Re: Prototype/Classless OOP in Ruby?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:6558] Prototype/Classless OOP in Ruby?"
    on 00/11/24, Terrence Brannon <brannon@lnc.usc.edu> writes:

|I have only glanced over it and was wondering if it were possible to
|do prototype-based OOP in Ruby.

Yes.  Almost all Ruby objects can:

  * have instance variables.
  * have singleton methods.

In addition, cloning a object copies its singleton methods too.
The restriction is Fixnums and Symbols cannot have singleton methods.
This might be relaxed in the (not near) future.

							matz.