Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> Caveats:
> 
> * HACKHACKHACK
> * Only works for single-arg "call" in this case, but easy to generalize 
> to all other calls
> * The namespace never gets turned off in this example. It wouldn't be 
> hard to add with parser help, but there's no trigger I can use in this 
> simple version.
> * Interpreter-only. Compilation would be a bit trickier, but not much.

Another important one:

* This version searches the namespace for the method *unconditionally*. 
It would probably be desirable to identify whether it applies to the 
receiver or not:

use String => Merb::String

And then the namespace association only applies when the receiver is_a? 
String.

- Charlie