From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-05-02T01:32:43+09:00
Subject: Re: inherited behaviour.

Peter Morris wrote:
> 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)

Ruby classes are never closed, so there is no significant point (2), 
just an arbitrary snapshot in the continuing definition of class B.

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