On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 04:56:03PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> First, universal operators and universal methods both pollute the
> useful (programmer) namespace to nearly the same extent.
Most of the methods are not universal. For example:
$foo.compress
would be in the String class, not Object (or whatever we're calling the
equivalent of UNIVERSAL today), and only inherited by those objects which
wish to masquerade as strings.
%hash.default
is in the Hash class.
The sameas example:
$obj.sameas $obj2
would be in the Object class and would pollute. Using Ruby as a rough
guide, there aren't many of those.
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_object.html
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