From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2002-08-11T10:11:27+09:00
Subject: Re: extend Html4?

> That's because cgi.rb does a bunch of dynamic creation of methods.
> (Look at #element_init, of which there's one in each of the Html*
> modules.)  So those methods don't actually exist until the CGI object
> is created.

Isn't that just a design issue, though?  Since Ruby is a totally dynamic 
language, anything that is fundamental to the use of the module could simply 
be coded at module-level, and set module-level variables that object 
instances and module methods use.

Mind you, maybe this isn't possible with modules. I do it a lot with classes, 
but haven't tried it with a module.