From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-11-02T23:19:52+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 27393-27541

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, David A. Black wrote:

> See my previous post, with an example from Ruby Behaviors.

sure.  but afaikt there is no jcode __object__ in the initial post to call
methods on.

surely the bare token 'jcode' cannot be it, otherwise

   using jcode

   jcode = 42

would have disaterous effects.  hopefully it would, in fact, be

   String::jcode

so we might also have

   Iconv::jcode

and, if this 'jcode' thing is an object why not create it directly with

   namespace jcode
     ...
   end

rather than implicitly using

   def jcode::method
   end

i'm unclear how this whole construct is more useful that using modules as
namespaces, which can be nested and manipulated like all other module/classes.

cheers.

-a
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