From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-03-21T20:57:11+09:00
Subject: Re: INeedzPrepend

On 20.03.2009 10:59, Trans wrote:
> Ruby's gone too long now without something --anything, in the way of
> this:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-core-google/browse_thread/thread/bf71070dc26a60bb/cf49db443e8352f6?hl=en#cf49db443e8352f6
> 
> A long time ago Matz suggested :pre and :post method modifiers, but we
> never got them. #prepend seems simpler, and certainly easier to
> implement.
> 
> Can I get an amen? Can I get support to put this a fast track? It's an
> exceptionally powerful idea (maybe not full blown cut-aop powerful,
> but it covers the most important aspects. hehe, pun intended).

I am not sure what you mean by "put this a fast track" but the feature 
seems useful for me.  I even put together an implementation of this 
quite a while ago.  So, I support, having this in the language at some 
point in time X << infinity (and probably also X < 2012).

Cheers

	robert