From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-12-15T02:11:36+09:00
Subject: Re: singleton methods vs. meta instance methods

Hi --

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Brian Candler wrote:

> David A. Black wrote:
>> Here's a demo of the consistency from the Class case to the SomeClass
>> case. I'm still not convinced that it's the ideal behavior.
>
> Why not? It seems both consistent and reasonable to me. Similarly:
>
> $ ruby -pe 'gsub(/A/,"String")' sing.rb | ruby -

Right; that's what I was demonstrating (the consistency, in that
instances of Class, A, String... all behave the same way). My problem
with what we're seeing is that I think the "false" flag should mean
"defined in exactly this class" -- and, in fact, that's what I thought
it did mean. Apparently it (consistently :-) does not mean that, when
the receiver is a singleton class.


David

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