From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2001-11-22T20:53:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26132] Re: Dynamic programming and Unit Testing.

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Robert Feldt wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
>
> Sorry for not replying to all of your mail, but at least:

That's OK.
>
> > However, one cannot define a class in a method.  This presumably relates
> >
> Well, you can sort of do it:
>
> class T
>   def sub
>     cls = Class.new(T)
>     cls.class_eval %{
>       def sub
>         puts "No more! Already in subclass."
>       end
>     }
>     cls
>   end
> end
>
> SubT = T.new.sub
> st = SubT.new
> st.sub             #=> "No more! Already in subclass."
>
> Maybe you can adapt this for your problem? Or am I out of line?

Hmm, this looks interesting, but feels like a workaround.  I'm trying
to understand the intended way of doing it.  But this is worth knowing
about.  Thank you.
>
> /Robert
>
>
	Hugh