From: Greg Weeks <greg.weeks@...>
Date: 2007-11-17T07:59:23+09:00
Subject: Re: "instance_eval" (eg, sent to a class object)

> It changes 'self' to the receiver, for the duration of the block.

> It only affects the execution context by binding self to the instance

And the value of self affects:

  - explicit uses of "self"
  - naked message-sends
  - instance and class variable access

Anything else?

Hmmm.  This is still a mystery:

    class Foo
    end
    Foo.instance_eval do
      def foo ; "foo" ; end
    end
    p Foo.singleton_methods  ->  ["foo"]

The "def" should have gone into the top-level environment, but it went
into <<Foo instead.  So my hat is still out.  (But I'm a lot better off
than I was.)
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