From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-05-07T16:27:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Method hooks in singleton classes

Hi,

In message "Re: Method hooks in singleton classes"
    on Fri, 6 May 2005 17:01:59 +0900, Pit Capitain <pit@capitain.de> writes:

|currently the hooks method_added, method_removed, method_undefined are 
|*not* sent to singleton_classes. Instead, the corresponding singleton 
|method hooks are sent to the "attached" instance.

|Is there any chance to always execute the else clause, as in:

In that case, we have to decide to make "mataclass" in the language
specification.  See [ruby-talk:139309].

|The reason I'm asking: in a library I'm writing I'd like to be able to 
|catch *every* method redefinition for a given object.

I'm not sure it's the solution.  We sometimes want to avoid
redefinition.  Something like "around" method in CLOS might help.

							matz.