From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T01:18:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Why the lack of mixing-in support for Class methods?

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> is this by design?
> 
>   harp:~ > cat b.rb
>   require 'class_extension'
>   module M
>     class_extension{ attr_accessor 'a' }
>   end
>   M.a # exception!
> 
> 
>   harp:~ > ruby b.rb
>   b.rb:6: undefined method `a' for M:Module (NoMethodError)
> 
> i lost track of whether the module should respond to this or not... (the 
> thread
> is looooong).

Hi,

Yes, it's by design. Originally I extended the class that defined the 
class extension, but per the request of some, I removed it again. This 
should sort it out

   module M
     class_extension{ attr_accessor :a, :b }
     extend class_extension
   end

   M.a = 42


Cheers,
Daniel