From: "Haase, Konstantin" <Konstantin.Haase@...>
Date: 2010-11-27T17:43:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:33423] Re: [Ruby 1.9-Feature#4085][Open] Refinements and nested methods


On Nov 27, 2010, at 06:10 , Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: [ruby-core:33396] Re: [Ruby 1.9-Feature#4085][Open] Refinements and nested methods"
>    on Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:24:43 +0900, Shugo Maeda <shugo@ruby-lang.org> writes:
> 
> |Matz doesn't like it, but I think it's worth considering.
> |However, it's a problem that we have main#include, where main is self
> |at the top-level, but not Kernel#include now.
> 
> If we introduce local rebinding, I think we have to rename it to
> "classbox" from "refinement".  Besides that, we sill have lot of
> issues about implementation, performance, etc.  But I believe, Shugo,
> you are the key person.  I am the one who approve.
> 
> 							matz.
> 

So, is local rebinding still on the table? From my point of view local rebinding is far more intuitive and there are some use cases I am not sure I could solve without local rebinding.

Konstantin