@dan rathbun said:
@ziocleto said:
The strong typization of Point3d and Vector3d is also very questionable as ...
And this why the SketchUp API authors made both classes "compatible" with a basic 3 element array, ...
OH.. also.. there is another way they could have gone for this particular method.
And that is duck-typing the argument, instead of class-typing it.
Ruby example (they are really implemented on the C-side):
<span class="syntaxdefault">def </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">+(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">arg</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault"> raise</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">TypeError</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxstring">"invalid argument type"</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,</span><span class="syntaxdefault">caller</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> unless<br /> </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> arg</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">respond_to</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">?(;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">x</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">&&<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault"> arg</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">respond_to</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">?(;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">y</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">&&<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault"> arg</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">respond_to</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">?(;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">z</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">||<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> arg</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">respond_to</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">?(;[])</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">&&</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxcomment"># be sure it has 3 members<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault"> arg</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">[</span><span class="syntaxdefault">0</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">].</span><span class="syntaxdefault">is_a</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">?(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">Numeric</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> rescue false </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">&&<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault"> arg</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">[</span><span class="syntaxdefault">1</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">].</span><span class="syntaxdefault">is_a</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">?(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">Numeric</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> rescue false </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">&&<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault"> arg</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">[</span><span class="syntaxdefault">2</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">].</span><span class="syntaxdefault">is_a</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">?(</span><span class="syntaxdefault">Numeric</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> rescue false </span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxcomment"># rescue modifiers trap IndexError exceptions<br /><br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault"> </span><span class="syntaxcomment"># the method body<br /><br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">end</span>
If you are only concerned with Ruby 2.0+, then you can use a refinement module to correct the method for you code only.