# Value types - e.g. TimeSpan

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/value-types-e-g-timespan/201682>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [January 12, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/value-types-e-g-timespan/201682 "2011-01-12T21:15:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/value-types-e-g-timespan/201682/1 "2011-01-12T21:15:37Z")

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Interesting

This is the code I was trying to play with -  
[http://denismarkelov.blogspot.com/2011/01/leveraging-rubys-fluid-syntax-in-dsls](http://denismarkelov.blogspot.com/2011/01/leveraging-rubys-fluid-syntax-in-dsls)

Monkeypatching DSLs?! I definitely feel like I’m learning at least one  
new  
language 🙂