From: Patrick Gundlach <clr7.10.randomuser@...>
Date: 2005-08-13T04:06:11+09:00
Subject: Re: eval, attr_* like methods

Hello David,

[...]

> You'd probably want:
>
>    class Module
>      def lookup_meth(*args)
>        args.each do |arg|
>          define_method(arg) do
>            instance_variable_get("@#{arg}")
>          end
>          define_method("#{arg}=3D") do |v|
>            instance_variable_set("@#{arg}", v)
>          end
>        end
>      end
>    end

That's cool. Where does 'Module' come into play? What part of 

class Foo ; end

is or is related to 'Module'? Hmm, I think I see: class is an instance
of Class, which is a subclass of Module, right? So the above with

class Class
   def lookup_meth(*args)
     args.each do |arg|
     ....
 
should do the same? But why is 'def' not a method of Class? Or would
be this too tricky to implement, so it is part of some other level of
parsing? 

Patrick