From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-07-04T06:30:45+09:00
Subject: Re: warning: refine foo, what!?

_ugly <mgarriss@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been doing some unit tests with ruby -W.  Wow did I have a lot to
> clean up but I still can't get past one warning.  I've boiled it down
> to this example:
>
> o = Object.new
> def o.foo
>   'foo'
> end
> class << o
>   undef_method :foo
> end
> def o.foo
>   'foo'
> end
>
> # undef_method_test.rb:8: warning: redefine foo
>
> Is my head broken or ruby -W broken?  I'm thinking the former.

Do you want your head fixed? :-)

Mayby it's the way undef_method works.  I never looked at the internals but 
maybe the knowledge is kept somewhere that foo was defined at some point in 
time.

Kind regards

    robert