From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-01-07T08:37:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30383] Re: snippet exchange (was: Re:  Re: chomp for arrays?)

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:05:51AM +0900, David Alan Black wrote:
> > This is not limited to x[object].rb's but also regards idioms and
> > solutions not pertaining to builtin classes extension.
> See [ruby-talk:14556] for a kind of cry-from-the-deep about this from
> last May.  

That cleared up the few remaining doubts about the need (or extreme
usefulness if you prefer) of such a system.

> I definitely see it as possible, especially if you're talking about
> adding methods rather than changing methods.  Actually I was aiming
> for both in Ruby Behaviors (see [ruby-talk:18803], also my talk on
> http://www.chadfowler.com/rubyconf.html), which may be why that
> project is still resting comfortably in a pre-alpha-ish stage.  (Aside
> to David Simmons: finished selector namespaces for Ruby yet? :-)

I've been hungry for Ruby Behaviours since I first saw mention of it.
The ability to plug things into classes is one of the things I most
love about Ruby and having something similar at the space level too
would be just great.


Massimiliano