From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-07-06T07:13:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17354] Re: Adding a method to a class at the top-level

Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

> All right :-), yet the conclusion of my message was, can we find a more
> elegant way to define an instance method at the top-level?

Well, if 'define_method' wasn't private,

  class Class
    public :define_method
  end

you could write

  class Dave
    # ...
  end

  Dave.define_method(:fred) { |str| puts "Hello, #{str}" }

  d = Dave.new
  d.fred("Barney")   #=>  Hello, Barney


Dave