From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-08-11T10:36:41+09:00
Subject: Re: extend Html4?

Hi --

On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Harry Ohlsen wrote:

> > 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.

I'm not quite following.  Do you mean this specifically in relation
to the design of cgi.rb?


David

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