Re:What Pythonistas Think of Ruby
by tghw on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @11:57AM
(#1098172)
Are you saying this because you can't monkey-patch literals? Because you can very much monkey-patch everything else in Python.
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Re:What Pythonistas Think of Ruby
by steveklabnik on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @01:07PM
(#1098371)
As far as I know, Python doesn't have open classes, right?
>>> def print_a(inst):
... print inst.a
...
>>> class Foo(object):
... def __init__(self, a):
... self.a = a
...
>>> Foo.print_my_a = print_a
>>> f = Foo(5)
>>> f.print_my_a()
5
Re:What Pythonistas Think of Ruby
by steveklabnik on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @03:56PM
(#1098840)
Well, I didn't downvote it, but you can't do this with _everything_ in Python, like you can in Ruby.
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> class Numeric
irb(main):002:1> def wtf
irb(main):003:2> puts "hey"
irb(main):004:2> end
irb(main):005:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):006:0> 5.wtf
hey
=> nil