From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2006-06-13T01:37:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Why the lack of mixing-in support for Class methods?

Gregory Seidman wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 07:19:10PM +0900, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
> }   class Module
> }     def meta_module(&block)
> }       @meta_module ||= Module.new
> }       @meta_module.module_eval(&block)
> }       extend(@meta_module)
> 
> Why should the module extend the meta_module?

Because I'd like the meta-module methods to act as module methods -- if 
you don't like that, remove that line.

> }     end
> } 
> }     def included(mod)
> }       mod.extend(@meta_module ||= Module.new)
> 
> Again, if it's a module why should it extend the meta_module?
> 
> }       if mod.kind_of? Module
> 
> This definitely won't work. You need to check for Class, not Module. Check
> it out:
> 
> % irb
> irb(main):001:0> Object.kind_of? Module
> => true

Or `instance_of? Module'

Again, I haven't had time to fully test this implementation -- please 
focus on the interface.


Cheers,
Daniel