From: Paul Brannan <paul@...>
Date: 2002-01-31T07:52:27+09:00
Subject: Re: strange behavior

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 07:44:43AM +0900, Chr. Rippel wrote:
> One problem is that at the ``time of method body declaration''
> you don't have access to the context - a.k.a binding.  It's a bit like
> the use of Pythons ``self'' variable - if don't spezify ``self'' you 
> cannot access self (in Python)

The context is, however, known at the time that the method is called.  I
grant that it would be a bit surprising if I did this:

  class A
    def foo
      puts thismethod.class
    end
  end
  class B < A
    define_method :bar, method(:foo)
  end
  B.new.bar

to see "B" printed to my screen, but this is probably not a common case,
so creating thismethod at runtime is reasonable.  thismethod could even
itself be a method that instantiates a wrapper around the inspectible
data.

Paul