From: "Chr. Rippel" <chr_news@...>
Date: 2002-01-31T08:24:45+09:00
Subject: Re: strange behavior


"Paul Brannan" <paul@atdesk.com> wrote in 
....
> 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.

The problem might be that  ``class_name" a.k.a.  "thismethod'' would have
to be a hidden parameter to make it accessible inside the method body  - 
i.e. the general overhead is probably not worth the benefit this feature
would provide. 

/Christoph