On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Hal Fulton <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally, I don't have a problem with "reducing the contract" > of a String.
It's just that Ruby is not particularly suited to using inheritance in different ways. In Eiffel you can do all this and do it visibly. In Ruby there's just mixing in modules and class inheritance. > Freezing an object also reduces its contract. Kind of. But I consider that a special case because freeze prevents all mutations but not other operations. It also does not restrict the range of valid state - it just freezes it. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ruby-talk-google group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ruby-talk-google?hl=en
