From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2008-05-23T23:43:59+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] removal of magical definition of name for some class definition idioms

On 5/23/08, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Proposal:
>
>  The following behavior should be implemented
>
>  535/35 > cat classes.rb && ruby1.9 classes.rb
>  # vim: sw=2 ts=2 ft=ruby expandtab tw=0 nu syn=on:
>  # file: classes.rb
>  class K; end
>  p K.name
>  classes.rb:5:in `remove_method': method `name' not defined in Class (NameError)
>         from classes.rb:5:in `<class:Class>'
>         from classes.rb:4:in `<main>'
>

Unfortunately Class#name is very popular in Ruby code.
Here, for example, is test/unit's TestCase definition:
    class TestCase
      include Assertions
      include Util::BacktraceFilter

      attr_reader :method_name

      STARTED = name + "::STARTED"
      FINISHED = name + "::FINISHED"


What would people use, with your change, to implement such things?