From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" <wonado@...>
Date: 2007-01-20T19:40:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Minor Change Proposal for Classes 'Object' and 'Method'

Vincent Fourmond schrieb:
> gwtmp01@mac.com wrote:
>> Method#receiver
>> Method#name
>> Method#origin           # module/class with definition of method
>>
>> Kernel#origin(name)     # module/class where named method is found
>>             # via standard method lookup process on the
>>                         # receiver.
>>                         # nil if no matching method found
> 
>   I vote for the last one too !
> 
> 	Vince

I don't think it works well with "Kernel#origin(name)" because the lookup result 
may change when changing the class definitions. The method, which returns the 
class name, should be directly related to the existing "Method" object. Example:

 >>>>> Example >>>>>
class Otto
   def hi
     puts "'Hi!' from an Otto instance"
   end
end

class Hugo < Otto
end

o1 = Hugo.new
mymeth1 = o1.method(:hi)

class Hugo < Otto
   def hi
     puts "'Hi!' from a Hugo instance"
   end
end

mymeth2 = o1.method(:hi)

mymeth1[] # => 'Hi!' from an Otto instance
mymeth2[] # => 'Hi!' from a Hugo instance

p mymeth1 # => #<Method: Hugo(Otto)#hi>
p mymeth2 # => #<Method: Hugo#hi>
 >>>>> End of Example >>>>>

Wolfgang N�dasi-Donner