From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-04-26T22:28:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Mixins for *objects*?

On 4/26/05, John Lam <jlam@iunknown.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to do something somewhat esoteric. I'm trying to mix in some additional functionality to WIN32OLE objects to avoid having to create a wrapper object that simply delegates functionality.
> 
> Imagine:
> 
> dir = WIN32OLE.connect("some moniker that returns a directory")
> 
> Let's say that I had a class that defined some helper methods like Ruby iterators:
> 
> class Dir
>   ...
> end
> 
> Is it possible to mix dir with Dir at runtime easily without adding methods at runtime etc?

Try:

  dir = WIN32OLE.connect("some moniker that returns a directory")
  module Dir
    ...
  end
  dir.extend(Dir)

-austin
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