Kontra, Gergely wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I've seen so far, that a ruby method can be hacked to be
>"unchangeable".
>Will ruby some day support some kind of predicate or modifier, so I can
>protect my method beeing overwritten?
>
>Gergo
>
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Java gives you this and it can do so because it is a statically typed 
language.

Ruby is a dynamically untyped language.

If you really need this feature then you will have to use Java.

The whole nature of Ruby would have to be changed if this feature was 
added to it. And all you would have is Java by another name.

"Manure by any other name would smell just as foul"