From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2005-07-29T23:41:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Hooking Class Methods


Charles Steinman wrote:

> Module#method_added is called when a new method is added to the
> module's collection of methods. When you define a method as
> SomeModule.method_name, you're not adding a method to the module's
> collection, you're adding a singleton method to the SomeModule object.
> You could do the same for any object, which is why Object contains
> singleton_method_added.

Thanks. What I found strange was that

  def self.method_added

is a singleton method too. So I thought it would hook singleton method
creation. I see now that this isn't the case b/c singletons "shadow"
the real methods. So this wouldn't work. Hence the seperate method.

T.