From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-12-19T10:35:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Mommy, where do methods come from?

Hi,

At Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:41:14 +0900,
Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 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?

Maybe nice.

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

defined?(arg) returns a string represents type of arg or nil,
not true/false.

-- 
Nobu Nakada