From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-09-07T01:39:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Patch to add a Module#const_missing method

Hi,

In message "Re: Patch to add a Module#const_missing method"
    on 02/09/06, Anders Bengtsson <ndrsbngtssn@yahoo.se> writes:

|> 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?

Understood.  How about more general aproach like "attr_missing" or
something to hook both instance variables and constants?  Of course,
there may be a better name.

							matz.