[ruby-core:67513] Refinements on modules?

The other day on the Ruby Rogues forum, someone asked how to idiomatically
write the following Clojure example in Ruby:

    (take 25 (squares-of (integers)))

My answer was:

  0.step.lazy.map{ |n| n**2 }.take(25).to_a

...which I'm pretty happy with, since it's reasonably concise and preserves
the laziness of the Clojure version.

The only part that bothered me was the squaring calculation: map{ |n| n**2 }

Presumably, `squares-of` is a Clojure built-in. I don't think Ruby should
add this to Enumerable; it's far too niche a use case. But I wanted a way
to insert a Ruby-ish squares_of directly into the chain of operations, like
this:

  0.step.lazy.squares.take(25).to_a

Obviously I could monkeypatch Enumerable to get this. But I thought it
would be nicer to make the patch non-invasive using refinements. And here's
where I ran into a snag: you can't refine modules.

I wound up refining Enumerator:

  module Squares
    refine Enumerator do
      def squares
        map{ |n| n**2 }
      end
    end
  end

  using Squares

  0.step.lazy.squares.take(5).to_a # => [0, 1, 4, 9, 16]

This works fine. But I'm bothered by refining Enumerator instead of
Enumerable. It means that the refinement isn't generic. In order to have
consistency, I have to know exactly what class[es] might be involved, and
refine all of them.

This doesn't feel very duck-type friendly. And the more I think about uses
of refinements, the more I think of wanting to refine modules that are
widely included, such as Enumerable or Comparable.

So my question is: is this a feature that is coming?

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Avdi Grimm
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