From: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@...>
Date: 2013-09-09T16:05:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:57084] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #8846]	Publicize	Module#include

Hello Marc-Andre,

On 2013/09/01 4:20, marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune) wrote:
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> Issue #8846 has been updated by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune).
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>
> Great :-)
>
> Taking Rails as an example, I find that the next in line are `define_method`, `remove_const`, `alias_method` and `attr_*`
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> As I stated in #6539, I believe these should be public also.

#6539 is marked closed. Best to open a new issue.    Regards,   Martin.

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> Feature #8846: Publicize Module#include
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8846#change-41506
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> Author: matsuda (Akira Matsuda)
> Status: Open
> Priority: Low
> Assignee:
> Category: core
> Target version: current: 2.1.0
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>
> I propose changing Module#include to a public method.
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> * Background
> Module#include is currently a private method.
> However, the method is actually quite often used (particularly by gem library authors) for appending some features from outside of the target module, such as:
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>    ActiveRecord::Base.send :include, MyPagination
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> * Use case
> % cd rails
> % git grep "send[ (]:include," | wc -l
> 45
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>