From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2002-03-05T13:19:13+09:00
Subject: modules and types

I'm trying to provide an extension to Range that is only valid within the
context of a few classes; however, wrapping it in a module causes kind_of?
to stop identifying ranges as such. Note that this works perfectly if I just
extend Range inside the file, without using a module. What's the difference?

  module ExtendRange
    class Range
      def foo
	"bar"
      end
    end
  end

  class A
    def test
      r = (1..10)
      [r.kind_of?(Range), r.type == Range, r]
    end
  end

  class B
    include ExtendRange
    def test
      r = (1..10)
      [r.kind_of?(Range), r.type == Range, r.type]
    end
  end

  a = A.new
  b = B.new
  p a.test # => [true, true, Range]
  p b.test # => [false, false, Range]
  
-- 
Martin DeMello