From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-05-11T19:24:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [ETYMOLOGY] - Sterile Classes / Sterile Meta Classes

Hi --

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Logan Capaldo wrote:

> #pouch keeps growing on me. go pouch!

I know this is a name brainstorming thing, not an implementation
thing, but I still wonder: what exactly would an object's "pouch" be?
A class or module?  Or some new, third thing?  Would there be a Pouch
class?  How would one add methods and/or constants to the pouch?

   pouch << obj

or

   obj.pouch.pouch_eval { }

? :-)

(Of course methods can be add with def obj.meth, but that doesn't
provide the complete class-scope functionality.)

Actually this isn't so much an implementation thing as an explanation
thing: how would one explain how to do this, and how far would one
have to travel away from Ruby's class/module design to do so?


David

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David A. Black
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