Re: final/closed classes in Ruby (was: Sharp knives and glue

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory S. [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 3:39 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: final/closed classes in Ruby (was: Sharp knives and glue)

class Foo
def test
puts “hello”
end
freeze #this already exists and does what you want
end

Well, I’ll be damned. I didn’t know you could do that. You learn
something knew every day I guess. :slight_smile:

Doesn’t prevent subclassing though. :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Dan

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On 5/11/06, Berger, Daniel [email protected] wrote:

def test
Thanks,

Dan

But any solution you can put into place with pure ruby, can be
circumvented
just as easily. :slight_smile: