From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-05-29T07:18:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling global method

Sean O'Dell wrote:
> On Friday 28 May 2004 13:41, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 
>>>On Friday 28 May 2004 13:02, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>>>
>>>Well, I find it useful as I'm a bit stuck right now about how to
>>>call a global method without producing some ugly code. It looks
>>>like ugly is going to win, though, since there is no clean
>>>built-in way to do it.
>>
>>1. What built-in method? Perhaps you've chosen the wrong method.
>>2. If it's not built in, why aren't you boxing it yourself?
> 
> 
> The timeout method, module "timeout."

Is alias too ugly?

require 'timeout'

alias global_timeout timeout

module M
   def M::foo n
     global_timeout(n) {sleep}
   end

   def M::timeout n
     puts "M's timeout"
   end
end

M.foo 3