From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-02-09T08:24:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Method Reflection

il Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:00:41 +0900, Benedikt Huber <benjovi@gmx.net> ha

>but i was not able to retrieve any information about
>the formal method parameters (correct term?), neither the number nor the
>name. I wasn't able to retrieve information on instance variables as
>well. Is it possible ?


arity() is your friend. About names: we'll see keyword arguments in
ruby2

>If this kind of information retrieval is considered useful, I would also
>suggest to add in-language comments as in python (especially if the irb
>gets faster and more user friendly ;) )
>

probably yuo mean docstrings. I asked this once and matz answered that
this won't make it in ruby. But you can use the MetaTags module for
this (yes, ruby is impressively flexible :).
Or, post an RCR on rcrchive.net :)