From: Zev Blut <rubyzbibd@...>
Date: 2004-11-24T19:24:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about the behavior of reopening a module and including another module.

Hello,

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 06:31:18 +0900, Pit Capitain <pit@capitain.de> wrote:

> 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).

Thanks for the link, it certainly helps describe how it is implemented.

> 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.

Yeah probably so.
Are there plans to change this in Ruby 2.0?

Best,
Zev