mst might speak for himself at another time, but i have a personal reason to post, so i will say this: Please do not take this conversation as an affront and t

mst might speak for himself at another time, but i have a personal reason to post, so i will say this: Please do not take this conversation as an affront and throw away what has so far come of it. It has shown you, and Ruby at large, an API that has been proven to be good and useful, and the Ruby community has come up with a way to implement it in a generalized way. I hope to someday be able to learn Ruby and use its OO with similar ease and pleasure as i can use the OO system in Perl 5. So please, do not throw this away. It is a valuable chance to do the same thing Perl has done so many times: Recognize something useful and make it your own.