From: Tim Hunter <Tim.Hunter@...>
Date: 2003-10-10T01:16:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RMagick 1.0.0 now available

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:49:41 +0900, Brian Candler
<B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:42:17AM +0900, Tim Hunter wrote:
>> And, as a last resort, if you're writing an application and could use a
>> bang version of a particular RMagick method, you can always add it to the
>> Image class yourself using the code you show here.
>
>Errm, actually I think it's quite difficult to turn a non-bang method into a
>bang method. You can't change 'self' to point to be a different object, so I
>think you end up having to unpick the underlying class and modify all the
>instance variables explicitly.
>
>What I showed was how to turn a bang-method into a non-bang method (which is
>easy)

Urp. You're right, of course. Had my stupid hat on.