From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2004-11-24T06:31:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about the behavior of reopening a module and including another module.

Zev Blut schrieb:
> Recently a colleague and I discovered that our understanding of how
> modules work, with regards to reopening a module after being included
> in a class, seems to be at odds with how Ruby actually handles the
> situation.
> 
> (example snipped)
> 
> Is this a design decision or an implementation issue?

You can find a description here: 
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/classes.html#UC (if you have 
the paper version see also figure 19.4 on page 247).

By including a module, anonymous proxy classes pointing to the module and its 
ancestors are added to the ancestors of the including class. If you alter a 
module's ancestors AFTER including the module in a class, the proxy classes 
don't reflect this change.

I think it's an implementation issue.

Regards,
Pit