From: Avi Bryant <avi@...4.com>
Date: 2001-09-21T15:09:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21480] Re: proposal: add Method reflection for source line, filename

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Ned Konz wrote:

> I've been using the rbbr (Ruby browser), and have enjoyed it. However, coming 
> from a Smalltalk background, I miss seeing the source code (when it exists).
> 
> So I added these two methods to eval.c to provide for source file name and 
> lien number:

<snip>

> What do you think? Is this something worth adding to Ruby?

Emphatically yes.  I've played games with hooking into method_added and
using caller() to find the same info, but I'd never looked to see how hard
it would be to add the method properly.  And I too would love to see
something like a Smalltalk browser for Ruby (although the
file and evaluation-order based nature of Ruby might make Lisp
environments a somewhat better model). 

Avi