From: Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
Date: 2006-09-27T18:08:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Modules, instance methods and class methods


  Hello !

> Not too long ago this was discussed with a length with Matz. The result
> was #class_extension.
> 
>  module Base
>     def desc
>       return self.class.desc
>     end
> 
>     class_extension do
>       def desc
>         return @desc
>       end
>     end
>   end
> 
>   class ThisClass
>      include Base
>   end
> 
> An excellent pure Ruby implementation of this was developed by Daniel
> Schierbeck, It can be found it the Facets project
> (facets.rubyforge.org). To use: require 'facet/module/class_extension'.
> For convenience the code follows.

  Thanks !

> It remains to be seen if Matz ultimately goes with this approach in
> Ruby 2.0. But as of yet I guess one could say it the most "official"
> technique available. (Not to say that others are prefectly valid of
> course)

  That would be cool if the syntax could be somewhat lighter: it somehow
doesn't look right to me to have the code within a block. But that's
just aesthetics... And that would be for ruby 2.0, if I understand right.

  Cheers !

	Vince