Mirza Kanlic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >ruby's "open class" functionality--that is, the ability to
> >modify a class' definition at runtime. ;-)
> 
> Probably nothing JavaScript could not do as fast and almost 15 years ago.

I would rather have pointed to Smalltalk, and 40+ years ago...

> Prototype and http://twologic.com/projects/inheritance/ example all of which
> should provide ground for various benchmarks.. the call of dynamic CLR,
> IronPython etc rings of slightly different but close-enough hammer of
> VBScript and expando properties failure yet again 

I don't quite follow - what are you suggesting? That VBScript and
expando properties have been failures, and that open classes are the
same?

> (despite the 'DDK'
> unit-mania being saturated with the same).

DDK: Device Driver Kit? Unit-mania?

-- Barry

-- 
http://barrkel.blogspot.com/

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