Exactly. Ruby shouldn't be included. As for the rest, Linus Torvalds put it well on a different topic:
...You've then superglued the broken parts together and said "if you look at it from the right angle you cannot SEE the cracks".

But the cracks ARE THERE! They make the system more complex internally, and even when you don't see the cracks you may notice that the thing doesn't quite stand up straight.

If you want everything to work as an object, then you really need to start with it done right. Because if you don't and try to reverse-engineer things, then you wind up with something like tie - it looks cool but never quite works properly when you push it.

In reply to Re: Re: Autoboxing: Yes or No? by tilly
in thread Autoboxing: Yes or No? by Ovid

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