From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T00:33:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Thousands of words on Ruby

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> 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?
> 
That's why you run your test suite through it.  You do have 100% line 
coverage, right?  :-)

-- 
Alex