From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T00:41:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Thousands of words on Ruby

On Sep 9, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Alex Young wrote:

> 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?  :-)

Well it's a clever idea.  Show us the prototype.  ;)

James Edward Gray II