From: Peter Morris <peter.morris@...>
Date: 2008-05-01T18:20:10+09:00
Subject: inherited behaviour.

Folks, would there be any DOWNSIDE to the call to the parents INHERITED 
method being deferred from the start to the end of the definition of 
the subclass?

At the moment if you...

class A
  def self.inherited klass
  end
end

class B < A # this is point (1)
  def self.some_method
  end
end # this is point (2)

at point (1), the inherited call on A happens.
Now, what I want to know is.... would there be a problem if this was 
deferred to point(2)

if you DID do that, then you could do interesting things inside inherited...

class A
  def self.inherited klass
    do_something_interesting if klass.respond_to?(:some_method)
  end
end

Just a thought.