From: Claus Spitzer <DocBoobenstein@...>
Date: 2004-08-30T08:59:06+09:00
Subject: Re: silly question

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 08:29:01 +0900, Ferenc Engard <ferenc@engard.hu> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry that I am asking so trivial, maybe it is too late: can I somehow
> mix in module functions into a module or a class? I.e.,
> 
> module X
> def X.foo; puts "foo"; end
> end
> 
> module Y
> include X            # what to write here?
> def bar; foo(); end  # want to call X.foo
> end
> 
> Is it even make sense?

You can do it in Ruby, and it makes a lot of sense. Refer to the
pickaxe for details
http://phrogz.net/ProgrammingRuby/tut_modules.html#mixins

> 
> In fact, I used ncurses library with ruby 1.6.8, and there I could use
> Ncurses methods like in the example above. With the new libs I cannot do
> that. Maybe in the old library the Ncurses methods were module AND
> instance methods...?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ferenc
> 
>