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07 Mar '12, 8am

Metaprogramming in Ruby: It’s All About the Self

@wycats Right. That is why they are unnecessary and only confuse developers. I didn’t see this until I happened to discover Io. After learning Io I was using Ruby and had to (once again) consult Pickaxe so I could remember the details of Ruby’s complicated inheritance / lookup model. Staring at the page in the context of having recently learned a simpler way, it was easy to see that classes, metaclasses, modules, class variables instance variables (and even blocks) aren’t needed. All you really need are objects that inherit from each other, slots and messages.

Full article: http://yehudakatz.com/2009/11/15/metaprogramming-in-ruby-...

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