From: "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
Date: 2001-07-06T21:11:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17406] Re: Adding a method to a class at the top-level


Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> ...
> > Aap.class_eval { def wim; puts 'zus'; end }
> 
> Not every readable IMHO... and it is also longer (in characters) than the
> current "default" (not very elegant IMHO) way of doing it:
> 
> class Aap; def wim; puts 'zus'; end; end
> 

hmm.

Not that I care, but it occurred to me that we have eval,
class_eval, and instance_eval. I wonder if that means it would 
be okay to have def, class_def, and instance_def?

class_def Aap.wim; puts 'ZUS'; end
(class method, same as class<<Aap; def wim....end)

instance_def Aap.wim; puts 'zus'; end
(instance method, same as class Aap; def wim; puts 'zus'; end; end)

And I suppose some thinking should go into a module_def, too.


Guy N. Hurst

P.S. And maybe even a yield_def to match the anticipated yield_eval ;-)

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