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		wdewind on Oct 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Dynamic Def – abusing Ruby's def statement For "primitives" yes, for objects no. What would be primitives in Ruby extend Object, because everything in ruby does, but (sigh) they redefine == so they act more like primitives in other languages. At least there is a clear cut rule, but it's pretty much turtles all the way down.

icebraining on Oct 18, 2015 [–]

But there are no primitives in Ruby, that's the point. Everything is an object, and some objects extend ==, others don't, even in the core language.

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