From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-09T18:21:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14907] Re: Class/Module Information

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:14881] Class/Module Information"
    on 01/05/09, "John Kaurin" <jkaurin@home.com> writes:


|Actual Output:
|
|Name ................. "C"
|Included Modules ..... [B, A]
|Constants ............ ["CONSTANT_C", "CONSTANT_B", "CONSTANT_A"]
|Class Variables ...... ["@@class_c", "@@class_b", "@@class_a"]
|Instance Variables ... []
|Instance Methods ..... ["func_c"]
|
|Desired Output:
|
|Name ................. "C"
|Included Modules ..... [B]
|Constants ............ ["CONSTANT_C"]
|Class Variables ...... ["@@class_c"]
|Instance Variables ... ["@var_c"]
|Instance Methods ..... ["func_c"]

Confucius once said "accept things as they are". ;-)

Anyway, let me think about things.

Included Modules:

  current Ruby implementation does not distinguish direct included
  modules (B, this case) and indirect included modules (A, this
  case).

Constants:

  you can get this information by

    c = C.constants
    C.included_modules.each{|m| c -= m.constants}

Class Variables:

  same as above.  it might be useful to add optional argument to
  restrict search for this class/module only.

Instance Variables:

  In Ruby, instance variables belong to each instance, not a class nor
  module, so that you can get their information from module.

							matz.