From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2006-06-12T00:45:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Why the lack of mixing-in support for Class methods?

dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> It looks reasonable though I would recommend not calling the method
> "class_methods".  That has the effect of freezing, in the language,
> the status and purpose of singleton methods on module and class
> objects.  I know that "class methods" is of course a conventional way
> to refer to those methods, but I'd be sorry to see it introduced at
> the language level at the expense of the generality of the current
> design.

I thought the same when I wrote it, but I couldn't come up with a better 
name. It's actually hard to pinpoint a reasonable one...


Daniel