11.2. More Advanced Techniques
Not everything in Ruby OOP is straightforward. Some techniques are more complex than others, and some are rarely used. The dividing line will be different for each programmer. We’ve tried to put items in this part of the chapter that were slightly more involved or slightly more rare in terms of usage.
From time to time, you might ask yourself whether it’s possible to do some task or other in Ruby. The short answer is that Ruby is a rich dynamic OOP language with a good set of reasonably orthogonal features, and if you want to do something that you’re used to in another language, you can probably do it in Ruby.
As a matter of fact, all Turing-complete languages are pretty much the same from a theoretical standpoint. ...
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