From: Stephen White <steve@...>
Date: 2000-11-09T09:44:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6184] Re: Minimal but practically useful Ruby browser?

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:

> Issues include trivial things, such as how to represent singleton
> classes such as
> 
>   def fred.doIt
>   end
> 
> Do they appear on the class list?

I don't think it'd make sense to show singletons in a class list, as
they're specific to a variable. Eg, doing

  a[b] = proc { puts "hello" }

is similar, in that it attaches code to a variable. A singleton is just
syntaxic sugar for the same operation.

This is assuming we're just browsing the defined classes, not looking
up the class tree for a specific variable. That would be nice for the
all singing all dancing browser.

> I was thinking: it probably wouldn't be hard to implement Ruby support 
> for OOBR, the emacs-hosted OO browser. That might let us play around a 
> bit. I'm not sure how many of the interested parties are emacs users
> though.

Been using 'joe' for 10 years now. That might explain some of the
warped excesses of my imagination. :)

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