Unified Type/class

[phil hunt]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:24:21 +0100, Pedro Rodriguez <pedro_rodriguez at club-internet.fr> wrote:
>
>Agreed. The questions are
>- why did Ruby team allow this feature on standard classes ?
>  (maybe 'str' is not a class on which Ruby interpreter relies ?)

Presumably if I wrote a Ruby program that changes a standared 
class, then any changes will only be of that program, and not
for any other Ruby program I write. In which case, since I would
obviously debug the changes so they didn't cause any bugs, 
what's the problem?


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