From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T00:19:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Thousands of words on Ruby

On Sep 9, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Alex Young wrote:

> Ok, so it's a real bodge to try to rename a method before runtime.   
> What happens if we annotate the method to be renamed the next time  
> it's run?  We could run the script in question under an environment  
> not totally unlike xmp.  The first thing it would do is alter the  
> source file according to the annotation.  It would then add an  
> appropriate method_missing to Object to do a rename in the original  
> source file whenever the method was called, and then load() the file.

And what happens if the execution never calls the given method, for  
whatever reason, or only reaches some of the places it is used?

James Edward Gray II