From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-07-14T10:20:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Initialize a variable in an extended class

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Eric Armstrong wrote:


> d) Do some other clever thing with closures or eval,
>    so the Element object can reference data defined
>    in my class? Is there a way to do that?

why not a module?

   module ElementExtension
     TAGS = %w( i p foo bar )

     def inline?
       TAGS.include? name
     end
   end

   REXML::Element.extend ElementExtension


-a
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