From: transfire@...
Date: 2006-06-16T21:51:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Why the lack of mixing-in support for Class methods?


Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

>   M2.foo  # => Error? (should it affect modules?)
>
> If 'class_extension' affects modules as well, do you think of any
> more generic name, in place of "class" extension?

The name is not really incorrect because

  class << Module.new ; self.class ; end  #=> Class

>   C.foo   # => Error? (should class_extension be propagated?)

It needs to propagate.  Otherwise it defeats much of the purpose.
Without propapation we could not create module adapters, or use #super,
which is absolutely vital when using it to track meta information, like
a method annotation for example.

T.