From: Verno Miller <verno@...>
Date: 2006-09-16T21:59:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby keywords vs methods

>Posted by Chris Roos (Guest) 
>on 16.09.2006 01:47 

>Hi,

>I attended Jim Weirich's talk at Rails Conf on Friday.  It was about
>thoughtful library design and contained a section on ways to mitigate
>risk when re-opening standard libraries.
>... 
>It struck me that it might be quite useful to wrap this up and apply
>it to all methods defined for [a] given class[es].  Unfortunately, it
>appears not to be (completely) possible.  I thought we might be able
>to use the method_added hook, but this gets fired after the method
>definition.  We need something to fire right before the method
>definition.  As def is a keyword and not a method, we can't override
>and add to the default behaviour.  Note, that we can, however, do this
>with define_method.


Maybe also check out  metaprogramming hacks similar to the "Alternative 
to inheriting from Array"  ( 
http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/2573 )!

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