From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-01-13T17:16:37+09:00
Subject: Re: faster integer arithmetics & arbitrary precision floating number

il Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:15:21 +0900, Jim Weirich <jweirich@one.net> ha
scritto::


>> still, you can't reopen base classes in python, IIRC..
>
>You can't reopen them as you can in Ruby, but it is possible to add 
>methods to a class after its definition.  It involves assigning an 
>unbounded method to a attribute.

I know thanks :) 

anyway, having int.__add__ always being the same easily alows you to
do some constant folding, impossible to do in ruby, I suppose