From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-05-12T06:05:38+09:00
Subject: Re: How to force a method redefinition ?


"dm1" <dmertz@online.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:d5tq7n$sq3$1@online.de...
> Hello,
> i'm puzzeld by the following piece of code:
>
> $ cat tests.rb
>
> module B
>  def xx ; puts "in B" ; end
> end
> module C
>  def xx ; puts "in C"; end
> end
> module D
>  def xx ; puts "in D"; end
> end
>
> include B ; xx
> include C ; xx
> include D ; xx
> include B ; xx
> include C ; xx
>
> $ ruby ./tests.rb
> in B
> in C
> in D
> in D
> in D
>
> I expected
> in B
> in C
> in D
> in B
> in C
>
> looks like include's are made only once.
>
> Is there another way of getting what i expect ?

There are several ways.  You can for example fetch methods from a module 
with "B.instance_method :xx" and then bind it to an instance.  What do you 
need that for?

Kind regards

    robert