From: Pit Capitain <pit.capitain@...>
Date: 2009-02-15T23:49:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Exercise in Frustration

2009/2/15 Trans <transfire@gmail.com>:
> Great. However, I also want the end-user of this library to be able
> effect all classes and modules with a single extend (or include) as
> well, if they so choose. Eg.
>
>    class Module
>      include MyEnhancement
>    end

Is the problem here that Module defines its own #attr_accessor
shadowing the new one?

> It would also be nice if the module's methods can be made to work from
> the toplevel (main):
>
>   extend MyEnhancement

What should #attr_accessor do in the context of the toplevel object?
Maybe you can show us another example?

> In attempting to implement this, I have found myself resorting to
> unDRY, ugly, hacky code, that always seems to have a bug in it
> somewhere. It's infuriating. This is not how programming Ruby is
> supposed to be!

Hmm, I think this will be hacky indeed.

Regards,
Pit