From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-04-23T23:59:07+09:00
Subject: Re: should method() returns singletons ?

il Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:28:19 +0900, Mauricio Fern�ndez
<batsman.geo@yahoo.com> ha scritto::


>
>I see two possibilities:
>you either
> * access the method repeatedly using the symbol: in that case you can
> store the information in a hash somewhere (say a hash in the singleton
> class of the object), using the method name as the key

just done this :)

> * keep the Method or UnboundMethod (if using instance_method) objects
>   around; then you can add that info to the object itself directly,
>   using its instance vars + singleton methods.

yes, but the logical place to hold this is an hash so you go back to
#1

>>Note that I needed it just for some little playing (copying  the
>>examples from the article at onjava.com about annotations in java 1.5)
>>so I won't bother if I can't have it :)
>
>Per-method annotations as shown in 
>http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/04/21/declarative.html
>can be implemented trivially using Module#method_added (it's the same
>technique used commonly to implement docstrings).
>

exactly what I did :)