[ruby-core:23616] Re: Defining #name= at the class level

Excerpts from Charles Oliver Nutter's message of Fri May 29 06:12:49 +0300 2009:
> I agree there's no way to come up with a general rule, and I think 
> specific exceptions to "it should just work" should only be considered 
> when it severely limits one or more implementations. In this case, since 
> rubinius can just change internal code to use something other than 
> Module#name or @name to retrieve the real, original, actual name, I 
> don't think it warrants an exception.

The particular problem is easily solved. The larger question
in this case, though, is that it seems that an implementation
is not allowed to rely on Module#name internally, but that it
*must* define some hidden mechanism instead.


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