From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2005-02-23T15:52:04+09:00
Subject: Temporary redefinitions

> Ooo, this just gave me an idea!
> 
> Block scope redefinitions of classes!
> 
> withImaginaryHungryNilConstruct do
>          while(line = gets.chomp )
>               # do stuff with line
>          end
> end # here NilClasses's definition reverts back to normal
> 
> You could do this in Ruby now, the only problem being is it would have
> dynamic and not lexical "scope" if I may obscenely misuse a term. This
> could be quite useful, I imagine, especially if it was generic (eg.
> have a way of saying use these modifications for class X for the
> duration of this block).
> 

You might want to read this:

http://nbtsc.org/~aredridel/2005/02/14-aspects.log

>