From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-08T12:01:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't bind a singleton method to a subclass?

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> The fact that B can call A.class_method is due to the special-casing of
> singleton classes of Class objects; it's the one case where a given object
> can execute singleton methods of another object.  But those singleton
> methods still belong, unambiguously, to the first object, A.  The reason B
> can call them is that A's singleton class serves as the superclass of B's
> singleton class -- so class_method lies on the method look-up path of B.
> But class_method is still defined only in A's singleton class.

still, quiet odd that one can do this

>> p B.method(:class_method).unbind

meaning, it's strange that you can 'unbind' from a class something which
cannot be bound to it and yet must have been for the initial call to 'unbind'
to succeed - a contradiction.

interesting.

-a
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