From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2002-02-05T03:06:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Mixins and accessing earlier definitions.

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:

> I am beginning to get the feeling that my whole approach to this problem
> is counter to the design of Ruby.  From the exposure to Ruby's design
> that I have had, this suggests that my approach is wrong.  Being able to
> create new classes by plugging code into them, redefining methods at the
> time of plugging in, without having to create a whole tree of subclasses
> would seem like a fairly structured approach.....

I think I've got there! It was staring me in the face, of course:
I should just use load (or require) to pull in the new definitions of my
class's methods, because I know which class it will be for -- that
remains a constant.  That way I can override methods to my heart's
content!

	Hugh