From: "T. Onoma" <transami@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T23:42:52+09:00
Subject: Re: UnboundMethods Useless?

On Wednesday 17 December 2003 03:06 pm, David A. Black wrote:
> I don't know what you mean by (ir)reversible, but the point is that
> it's meaningless to talk about arbitrary objects being able to do
> arbitrary things.  For example (and Guy has already given some),
> String#strip removes whitespace.  What would it mean to remove
> whitespace from a Hash or a Fixnum or a MyThing?  And more to the
> point, what would happen if

It is not meaningless. It is not arbitrary. Programmer's do not just blow 
their nose and snotty code comes out. Your extreme over simplification has no 
bearing.

> I don't mean: "Could such objects have some method called 'strip'
> which made sense for them?" because that's not what you're suggesting.
> What you're suggesting is that String#strip, Array#join, Thread#join,
> IO#readlines, Regexp.escape, MyThing#some_method, and every other
> method written for any purpose in Ruby should, without change or
> adaptation, work for any Ruby object.

No, that is not being said. What is being said: if the shoe fits, wear it. 
Hmm... sounds like a bad work I know: *uck ;)

It all about the Dynamics, baby! Let the Static go.

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T.