From: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@...>
Date: 2002-10-16T00:41:06+09:00
Subject: Re: How to undefine a method on the fly?

Philip Mak wrote:
> Suppose I have this:
> 
> class Hello
>     def hi
>         puts "Hi"
>     end
> end
> x = Hello.new
> 
> Is it possible to modify the object x so that its "hi" method no longer
> works, without affecting the Hello class itself? I read about
> "remove_method" and "undef_method" in ri, but I can't figure out how to
> target them at a specific object.

Could a workaround be to re-define/overload the method so that it 
raises the appropriate exception?

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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