From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2011-10-29T07:46:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Use #extend on BasicObject ?



On Oct 28, 5:59 pm, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Intransition <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 28, 10:39 am, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Intransition <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks. Robert. You are a reliable work horse on this mailing list.
> > The community owes you much kudo.
>
> Thank you!
>
> > I jumped the gun and put in a feature request on redmine. matz gave me
> > the same answer. so you are in good company :-)
>
> :-)
>
> > However Nakada gave me a bit nicer one I think:
>
> >  Enumerable.__send__(:extend_object, BasicObject.new)
>
> > Using the module callback. pretty smart.
>
> Indeed!  Still it's more verbose than it should be, don't you think?
> Making this method public seems like the idea solution.  Do you have
> any insight / idea why it is private?

Probably b/c normally you're not supposed to call it directly. You use
object#extend(module) instead and then that dispatches to
module.extend_object(object). In other words, it's private as form of
deterrence from casual use.