From: "rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)" Date: 2012-06-26T00:47:27+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:45836] [ruby-trunk - Feature #4254] Allow method transplanting Issue #4254 has been updated by rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas). I guess it wouldn't make much sense and would lead to other developer's confusion as the method may rely on some internal state of an instance of that class... ---------------------------------------- Feature #4254: Allow method transplanting https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4254#change-27414 Author: zimbatm (Jonas Pfenniger) Status: Closed Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: core Target version: 2.0.0 =begin 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. =end -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/