From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-12-16T01:47:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Subclassing Array

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:07:08AM +0900, Hans Fugal wrote:
> I'm hoping that most of the changing methods of Array are actually
> implemented in terms of a couple of fundamental methods, e.g. insert and
> delete. So I would do:

That's unfortunately not the case (for performance reasons), but you
could take a look at matju's Metaruby which IIRC does exactly that.

OTOH, even wrapping all those methods need not be tiresome if you use
some meta-programming or AspectR for instance.

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