From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2005-06-02T12:20:48+09:00
Subject: Re: preventing Object#send from dispatching to a global method?


On May 29, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Jim Weirich wrote:

> On Saturday 28 May 2005 11:05 pm, Francis Hwang wrote:
>> I wanted to trigger some methods to undefine instance methods of
>> 'fname' in User, but I can't do that with Class.inherited -- because 
>> at
>> the time that the User class is being defined, I don't know that I'm
>> looking for global methods named 'fname' and 'lname'.
>>
>> It feels like, from perusing the archives, there is currently no way 
>> to
>> be notified when a class definition is finished. Correct?
>
> I don't know of any ... however, would this help?
>
>   class User < Lafcadio::DomainObject
>     fields do
>       text 'fname'
>       text 'lname'
>     end
>   end
>
> You can have fields perform actions at the end of the block.  I don't 
> know if
> this is good enough, or if you really need it at the end of the class 
> def.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that's probably too cumbersome. For the 
time being I suppose I'll just have to warn users of the lib not to 
have global methods named the same as the auto-methods. It's probably 
not a common problem, anyway.

Francis Hwang
http://fhwang.net/