From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-04-08T00:39:19+09:00
Subject: Re: New variable types and assorted lunacy

il Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:40:34 +0300, "T.Oakley" <root@127.0.0.1> ha
scritto::

>Hello!
>
>I'm more or less a newcomer to Ruby ("found" it 4 days ago).
>Having mostly dealt with functional/procedural
>languages in the past, I'm having a little trouble adjusting to 
>the OO-paradigm, but nevertheless, Ruby's got me hooked.


welcome!

>Anyhow, here's the problem:
>
>Can create a class that extends the existing variable types?

sure and you can even override the default behaviour for existing
ones.

<snipeed code>

You can't ovverride = sorry. It's not a message so we are stuck with
stupid accessors :)

it seem to me you just want a circular array or range, with a cursor.
Am I wrong?

PS
it would be cool anyway to be able to override assignment :)