From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-09-28T01:14:57+09:00
Subject: Re: local_method_missing possible

On Sunday 26 September 2004 02:01 am, Markus wrote:
> 1) Wouldn't that cause infinite recursion if you called B.new.a?
> 2) Is this something like CLOS (common lisp object system) around
> methods?  (See http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jeff/clos-guide.html).  If so,
> I have an partial implementation that works in 1.8.0 (and I hope will
> work in 1.8.2 final)

1) Good point.

Actually, what is really needed, to make this work well, is a way to send the 
method on, up to the next level of the class/module hierarchy, without 
rerouting back to the bottom.

2) Thanks. I actually have many implementations of wraps already -- I take it 
you are using alias?

Obviously local_method_missing is just a proto-idea, but what it intendeds to 
solve is related to dynamically creating wraps that apply to collections of 
methods, not just a single method. Also, it is for use in a specific context, 
namely a subclass.

So the question is this: Given a class and a predefined 'wrapping' method, how 
do I create a subclass and a submethod to effect multiple methods in the 
class. Obviously I could just create a submethod for each class method, but 
that seems rather bulky.

Hope that makes enough sense,
T.