This works in Ruby:
class Integer
def hello ()
puts self
end
end
5.hello() # outputs 5
For performance reasons there is a slight bit of cheating for some
numerical types. For example you cannot add a method to the number 5
only. See http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.4/Fixnum.html for details.
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Bill Ricker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Ben Tilly <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Do smalltalkers accept Ruby's claims? Their native OO is more OO than
>>> P5's (but we have choices), but is arithmetic really done with messages?
>>
>> Yes. Ruby's OO model is an exact copy of Smalltalk's. Arithmetic
>> works the same way once you get past the syntactic sugar.
>
>
> So in Ruby, 3 natively handles metaobject methods ?
>
> --
> Bill Ricker
> [email protected]
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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