From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-04-06T11:49:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [curiousity] why aren't declarations just syntactic sugar?

"Bill Kelly" <billk@cts.com> scribbled:
> It'd probably at least have to be:
>
>  (MyClass ||= Class.new) do
>
> so we can re-open classes as we currently do.

"MyClass do ..." looks like a syntax error to me.

How about a Class#| for this (think set union like Array#|)?

MyClass |= Class.new do
....

First-class methods would make implementation of something like this 
convenient.

Cheers,
Dave