From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-12-19T07:41:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Mommy, where do methods come from?

Christoph wrote:
> module Kernel
>   def methodClass(m)
>     m = m.to_s
>     # catch method undef's
>     respond_to?(m) or return nil
>     # meta class is first inline
>     extended_anc =  self.class.ancestors.unshift(class << self; self end)
>     extended_anc.find {|c| c.instance_methods.include?(m) }
>   end
> end

Hm. Since #respond_to? is doing this work alread, maybe it would make 
sense for it to return the Module where it finds a method, instead of 
just true?

Sorta like how defined?(arg) returns not just a boolean value but the 
kind of thing arg is.