From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2006-02-22T03:29:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] lazy.rb 0.9.5 -- transparent futures!

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On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 17:33 +0900, Andrew Johnson wrote:

> When I toyed with a proof-of-concept of Io's asynchronous messages in Rub=
y
>=20
>   http://www.siaris.net/index.cgi/Programming/LanguageBits/Ruby/Async.rdo=
c
>=20
> Jim Weirich pointed out that methods later added to Object or Kernel will
> no longer be "missing" in the Async (or Future) class. One work around is
> to trap "method_added" up the chain, for example:
>=20
>   http://www.siaris.net/cgi-bin/siwiki.pl?FeedBack/AsyncMessages
>=20
> But then I discovered that methods added by including a module weren't
> trapped by method_added -- so in the end, a KernellessObject (from evil.r=
b)
> was needed (same link as above) as Async's parent to keep the proxy clean=
.

Hmm, good catch.  Thanks!

I wonder if it's worth introducing a dependency on evil.rb?

-mental

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