From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-04T23:18:56+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 24298-24353

On Sunday 03 October 2004 06:49 am, Robert Klemme wrote:
> "trans. (T. Onoma)" <transami@runbox.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > Hmm, maybe should cache the functor for efficiency.
>
> Might not be a good idea since the method can change. Currently I don't
> know a way to detect that change as those method methods always return new
> instances.

Right. Makes me wish Ruby had an light-weight object class.

> Apart from that I still think that explicit super class method invocation
> other than a method invocing its own super implementation is a code smell
> that indicates the need for a refactoring.

Hmm... I might say the same thing about instance_variable_set. In fact, one 
might go further and say the same about class_eval, instance_eval, 
define_method, etc. --in certain way all these "meta features" reek of code 
smell!  But it's all about the use case.  There are core-language related use 
cases for which these are must haves.  I dare so, though, it might be better 
if these features added via #require, rather then always be present.

T.