From: Anders Bengtsson <ndrsbngtssn@...>
Date: 2002-09-06T19:59:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Patch to add a Module#const_missing method

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Patch to add a Module#const_missing method"
>     on 02/09/06, Jan Arne Petersen <JanArne.Petersen@t-online.de> writes:
> 
> |I wrote a patch to add a Module#const_missing method like the 
> |Object#method_missing method to Ruby.
> 
> Thank you for the patch.  But we have to discuss whether we need this
> hook.  Hook is sometimes useful but since we can not add every
> possible hook, we have to draw line somewhere.  Opinion, everyone?

Jan Arne has already implemented it in JRuby, where we needed to create
proxy classes for Java classes. I guess there must be some similar uses
for it in C-Ruby too, for creating proxy classes?

/Anders

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