From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-11-03T04:23:50+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 27393-27541

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Hi --

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Mauricio Fern=E1ndez wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:52:57PM +0900, David A. Black wrote:
>> That's similar to what I did in Ruby Behaviors, but with an "off"
>> switch for the non-block version:
>>
>>   # Block
>>   b.adopt do
>>     ...
>>   end
>>
>>   # No block
>>   b.adopt
>>   ...
>>   b.desist
>>
>> (where b is a Behavior object)
>>
>> Of course, Ruby Behaviors had some issues, especially thread safety --
>> which is what got the discussion going about selector namespaces at
>> RubyConf 2001 :-)
>
> Wasn't Ruby Behaviors dynamically scoped though?
> It seems Ruby's selector namespaces are more likely to be static.

That was one of the things on the list of unresolved questions in the
summary.  I'm actually not entirely clear on what static would mean in
this context.


David

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