[Nitro] class_extension

[Judson Lester]

Even as a Facets curmudgeon, I'm actually strongly for class_extension.

On 3/20/07, transfire at gmail.com <transfire at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 20, 8:48 am, "George Moschovitis"
> <george.moschovi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Moreover, do you understand the technical
> > > differences between the two? Do you realize that the first does not
> > > extend past the first inclusion? Ie. include Foo above into Bar and
> > > then Bar into Baz, Baz would not have the module methods --for that
> > > you'd have to add even more crufty code.
> >
> > Hmm, I didn't know about that. I thought (and othere agree) that the
> > standard idiom is more readable. But if your code works better (and
> > safer) as you describe, I guess we should reconsider, and keep using
> > this. Thanks for clearing this out.
>
> No problem. Sorry for coming on so strong, but this really shocked me.
> But I understand that most people don't know about the many
> discussions on this topic. Matz is considering class_extension, or
> something like it, for inclusion in Ruby 1.9/2.0. But he's not 100%
> sure yet. So there's still room for improvement if anyone can think of
> a better way.
>
> I also understand it is not idiomatic 1.8 Ruby. Unfortunately what has
> become idiomatic is the ClassMethods hack made popular by Hal Fulton
> in the Ruby Way. Ara T. Howard goes even further and creates an
> InstanceMethods module! Lol. :)
>
> In any case. I am deeply involved in this particular development as I
> am a strong proponent of allowing module singleton methods to be mixed-
> in. Personally I would prefer an alternate method to #include that
> does it automatically. But for whatever reason Matz seems hesitant of
> this.
>
> Maybe this alternative would be better however, as it appears more
> idiomatic?
>
>
>   module Foo
>
>     class << extension
>
>     end
>
>   end
>
>
> I might suggest that to Matz. How does that strike you?
>
> T.
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