From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2004-05-29T06:15:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling global method

On Friday 28 May 2004 13:57, Bill Kelly wrote:
>
> From: "Sean O'Dell" <sean@celsoft.com>
>
> > On Thursday 27 May 2004 22:52, Bill Kelly wrote:
> > > Not super pretty, but I'm currently using:
> > >
> > >   def somemodule::somemethod
> > >     Kernel.instance_eval { test() }
> > >   end
> >
> > That's pretty ugly.  I figured it would come down to having to do
> > something icky like this.  Bah.
>
> How 'bout:
>
> class Global
>   def self.method_missing(meth_id, *args)
>     Object.instance_eval { self.send(meth_id, *args) }
>   end
> end
>
> Then we can do:
>
>    def somemodule::somemethod
>      Global.test                    # or Global::test
>    end

I think it should be something built-into the language, so while this is much 
nicer, it's still not something I'm happy with.

	Sean O'Dell