From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-04-20T00:43:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Replacing groups of methods: How would *you* do this?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Alan Black" <dblack@candle.superlink.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: Replacing groups of methods: How would *you* do this?


> 
> Could you do conditional execution?
> 
>   if condition
>     class Thing
>       # redefine methods
>     end
>   end
> 

I could, but I dislike if-statements that
are miles long.

And there's no way to encapsulate this,
either, as far as I can see. Oh, I could 
put it into a here-doc and eval it later...
but boy, is that ugly.

I guess now I'm leaning toward the
separate-file thing...

Hal