You can do that in Ruby

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by ben_tilly

8/24/04 8:47:03 PM

You can do that in Ruby

You can't do it exactly like you suggested - since there is no method named owner on the number 1, you cannot call that method. You have to create the method first. This works:

\nclass Fixnum;\n  attr_accessor :owner;\nend\n\n1.owner = "me";\nputs 1.owner;\n

Cheers,
Ben

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Python decorator proposal - (FuManChu) - (10) - Aug. 23, 2004, 09:21:46 PM EDT

as a non python user, whats wrong with the old way? -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 24, 2004, 08:42:40 AM EDT

Not really wrong, just annoying - (FuManChu) - Aug. 24, 2004, 10:59:03 AM EDT

I don't understand the example :( - (Arkadiy) - (5) - Aug. 24, 2004, 12:05:46 PM EDT

classmthod - (FuManChu) - (4) - Aug. 24, 2004, 12:32:59 PM EDT

A more concrete example from Ruby - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Aug. 24, 2004, 04:38:37 PM EDT

Oh, I underrstand class/object methods - (Arkadiy) - (2) - Aug. 24, 2004, 05:08:40 PM EDT

You can't do that to builtins yet - (FuManChu) - Aug. 24, 2004, 05:18:41 PM EDT

You can do that in Ruby - (ben_tilly) - Aug. 24, 2004, 08:47:03 PM EDT

An update on the proposed change - (ChrisR) - (1) - Sept. 3, 2004, 02:43:14 PM EDT

Why, yes, he did. :) - (FuManChu) - Sept. 3, 2004, 04:50:44 PM EDT

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