From: Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...>
Date: 2002-09-06T21:50:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

ts wrote:
>>>>>>"C" == Christian Szegedy <szegedy@nospam.or.uni-bonn.de> writes:
>>>>>
> 
> C> Before the point where Ruby calls the rb_add_method, it copies the whole
> C> subtree of the method definition and changes all nodes referencing the
> C> private data members, and passes the root of the new subtree to
> C> rb_add_method.
> 
>  Well, I see what you want to do, you even don't need to duplicate the
>  subtree but for me this just sound as a "bricolage" that I can accept only
>  in my sources (see fl.c)

Why don't I have to duplicate the subtree?

What is bricolage?

What is fl.c?

> 
>  For example, you must modify more than just NODE_DEFN and NODE_DEFS
> 
>    class A; def a() @_m = 12; end end
>    a = A.new
>    a.a
>    a.instance_eval do
>       p @_m
>    end
> 

I see, it seems that instance eval must substitute each occurence of @_...
by the mangled name.

Thanks for the lesson, Christian