From: luke gruber <luke.gru@...>
Date: 2011-12-03T03:47:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Inverse Operation of Module#include

Peter Vandenabeele wrote in post #1034787:

> Very curious to hear how this design could be improved with duck typing.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Steve was trying to say that using 
__abstract__ base classes are useless. I mean, it's just there to raise 
an exception, but the exception would have been raised anyway (a 
NotMethodError). In Ruby, interface is everything, so instead of seeing 
if something is a kind_of? Team, just check if it responds_to? :play and 
code the interface that way.

In your case, the base class is taking care of things that all accounts 
do. In my view, this is a fine, and it's not __really__ a ruby abstract 
base class because you're not raising explicit exceptions on abstract 
methods. In your case, this is just a base class, not an 'abstract' base 
class. Abstract base classes have purely abstract methods that are just 
useless in ruby. If however, you're providing real implementation 
through actual methods that do stuff, this isn't an abstract base class 
but just a base class.

As for passing through the module chain, i came up with a quick hacky 
way of doing it after reading through this thread.

class A
end

module B
  MODULE = :b
  def foo(mod=nil)
    if respond_to? :passable?
      return(super) unless mod == MODULE
    end
    'from module B'
  end
end

module C
  MODULE = :c
  def foo(mod=nil)
    if respond_to? :passable?
      return(super) unless mod == MODULE
    end
    'from module C'
  end
end

a = A.new

class A
  include B
end

p a.foo => 'from module B'

class A
  include C
end

p a.foo => 'from module C'

module Passable
  def passable?
    true
  end
end

a.extend Passable

p a.foo :b => 'from module B'
p a.foo :c => 'from module C'

Pretty straightforward, and could be rewritten fairly easily to pass all 
methods on to super if that were required. Tell me what you guys think. 
I think undef'ing a method is fairly brutal in this situation.

-Luke

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