From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2008-02-28T00:32:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about how ruby sources is parsed

That's weird looking stuff, I can't imaging that it's good to do thing that way.

What's wrong with

class String
  def foo
     123
  end
end

?

Jason

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:19 AM, ThoML <micathom@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I recently came came up with this piece of (monkey-inspired) code:
>
>     class String0 < String
>         def foo
>             123
>         end
>     end
>
>     Object.send :remove_const, :String
>     String = String0
>
>  This makes the following two statements work as intended:
>
>     p String0.new("foo").foo # => 123
>     p String.new("foo").foo # => 123
>
>  The following doesn't work though:
>
>     p "foo".foo
>     p eval %{"foo".foo}
>
>     undefined method `foo' for "foo":String (NoMethodError)
>
>  Has somebody an idea if it is possible to make the ruby parser use
>  the
>  new String class somehow? I assume there is no way to make this work
>  but
>  then: I'd be happy if somebody proves me wrong.
>
>  Regards,
>  Thomas.
>
>
>