From: Ralph Mason <ralph.mason@...>
Date: 2004-01-20T13:36:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Metadata

Ryan Pavlik wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:05:51 +0900
>Ralph Mason <ralph.mason@telogis.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I am playing with dynamicaly creating proxy ruby objects, but need
>>more data than can be provided by a class or function name.
>>
>>And so am wondering if anyone has a way to do this?
>>    
>>
>
>Everyone will hate me for this, but I wrote two modules for doing just
>these two things: MetaTags and Strongtyping.  Unfortunately the server
>has been down this weekend due to hardware death.  I've just reloaded
>the mephle.org stuff, so those should be there now.
>
>You may or may not care for how metatags works; it works conveniently
>for me, but you could build a compatible structure from various means.
>If you come up with another interesting way of doing this, I would be
>interested.
>  
>
I will check out your stuff.  Thanks

I guess I would just like to be able to do something like my example. 
Also being to subclass Metadata would be handy

eg

class PlRubyFunction < Metadata
    def initialize(ret,params)
       ....
    end
end



...sometime later

def MyClass

    PlRubyFunction.new("int",["int","int"])
    def my_func(x)

    end
end
   
....

Metadata.each(PlRubyFunction){| func|
    puts   func.class
    puts   func.name
    puts   func.ret
    puts   func.params
    #I would really like this one
    puts func.code
}

Or somesuch like that so you can make metadata self vaidating.

It seems like something that would have an unlimited number of useful 
and creative applications.

Ralph