From: Evan Webb <evanwebb@...>
Date: 2005-04-05T04:58:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Wrote "Hookable" mixin, what now?

To chime in, perhaps we should look to merge Hookable and the class
that I've been working on, called Maskable. It has a similar aim,
allows you to attach new methods to run with an original method.
Maskable was designed as a replacement for 'alias :old_thing :thing'
as it's not extensible when there is a method that is commonly
modified (like Kernel.require). With a few tweaks from the Hookable
code, it'd be possible to add the hook style stuff too.

Maskable is thread safe as well.

Maskable is at http://hoshi.fallingsnow.net/svn/maskable/maskable.rb

It should be noted that maskable hasnt undergone extensive testing.
There are examples of Maskable at the bottom of the maskable.rb.

Thoughts?

Evan

On Apr 4, 2005 12:54 PM, Jan 'jast' Krueger <usenet@zoidberg.org> wrote:
> > An example of something that should be improved: there's a major annoyance
> > in Hookable::Wrapper that is mentioned in the RDoc documentation (see below).
> 
> I forgot another deficiency that's not included in the documentation
> yet--Hookable is not thread-safe. I see no way to fix this without
> completely changing the interface, though.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> Jan 'jast' Krueger <usenet@zoidberg.org>, Aachen, Germany
> (mails to <jast@...> go through less strict spam checking)
> 
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