From: Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
Date: 2007-01-20T04:03:10+09:00
Subject: Re: what's wrong with this snippet ...

Jimmy Kofler wrote:
> Hi, all!
> I've just stumbled over this orphaned snippet on my hard drive that
> returns a NoMethodError message instead of "Method meow called"!
> Is there a workaround?
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> AnimalSounds = Module.new
> 
> AnimalSounds.class_eval %q!
> def createSound(attr_name)
> class_eval <<-EOS
> def #{attr_name};  puts "Method #{attr_name} called"; end
> EOS
> end!

  This creates an instance method and not a class method. Consider using
def self.#{attr_name}.

  Cheers,

	Vince
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