From: "Haase, Konstantin" <Konstantin.Haase@...>
Date: 2011-01-09T22:08:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34269] Re: [Ruby 1.9-Feature#4254][Open] Allow method transplanting

Wouldn't that be unnecessary if matz' trait proposal would be implemented?

On Jan 9, 2011, at 13:58 , Jonas Pfenniger wrote:

> Feature #4254: Allow method transplanting
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4254
> 
> Author: Jonas Pfenniger
> Status: Open, Priority: Normal
> Category: core, Target version: 1.9.3
> 
> Is there a technical reason to not allow re-binding a method from one module to any other module ?
> 
>  module M
>    def foo; "foo"; end
>  end
> 
>  module N; end
>  N.send(:define_method, :foo, M.instance_method(:foo)) #=> should not raise
> 
> It's like monkey-patching. Powerful, dangerous, but also really useful. It could allow different variations of method_wrap or alias_method_chain that are not possible right now.
> 
> 
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