From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>
Date: 2005-01-26T12:45:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Injecting methods from one class into another.

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:40:49 +0900, George  Moschovitis
<george.moschovitis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Object methods do not work in vacuum, they usually use instance
> > variables to reffer to the object's state, possibly changing it
> > (remember encapsulation ;-)?). How would you expect your
> > inject_method() deal with it?
> 
> I thought Ruby promotes 'duck typing'.
> 
> I would like to inject specific methods between specific classes. The
> destination class has all the instance variables needed to succesfully
> execute the method.
> 
> 

That's not duck typing, it's duck cloning, Dr. Frankenstein!

-- 
Nicholas Van Weerdenburg