Coming back to this thread after a long hiatus, sorry about that ...

On Jun 2, 2005, at 8:57 AM, Glenn Parker wrote:

> Francis Hwang wrote:
>> On May 30, 2005, at 9:02 PM, Glenn Parker wrote:
>>> Francis Hwang wrote:
>>>
>>>> It feels like, from perusing the archives, there is currently no 
>>>> way to be notified when a class definition is finished. Correct?
>>>
>>> Not that I could find, and I've mentioned this as an annoying 
>>> limitation of Ruby myself.
>> Should I submit an RCR? Haven't done one before. Would it be called? 
>> Class#inherited_finished ?
>
> I would say it's worth an RCR, but a class definition is never really 
> finished, so a different name is needed.  Maybe Module#end_update 
> would make more sense.  This would be a callback that is invoked when 
> the interpreter gets to the final "end" of a Module/Class block.  
> Extra points if it passed a list of constants that were added, 
> removed, or redefined.
>
> Can you accomplish your original goal with Module#method_added?  If 
> Lafcadio::DomainObject#text defines new methods, that seems like a 
> sufficiently solid hook.
>

I can't; DomainObject#text doesn't actually define a new method, it 
just adds to a class-level array of fields that are accessed in 
method_missing. I actually solved part of the problem by using 
undef_method, as Matz suggested. Another part of the problem is still 
unsolved, so I'll be responding to Matz' email in a few seconds, 
explaining it in more detail ...

Francis Hwang
http://fhwang.net/