Feature #11919: Passing a module directly

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[sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada)]

Refinement requires a named module:

module MyRefinement
  refine ...
  ...
end

using MyRefinement

but often (but not always), refinements are called by the using command only in once in a single file, and should not need to be named in such case. Also, the purpose of refinement is to not pollute classes with methods. Necessity to define a module and polluting the name space looks to me to go against this idea.

I would like to do:

using Module.new do
  refine ...
  ...
end

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

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You can write it as

using Module.new {
  refine ...
  ...
}

Or without Module.new?

using do
  refine ...
  ...
end

[sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada)]

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

You can write it as

using Module.new {
  refine ...
  ...
}

Right. I had forgotten about operator precedence. My example did not make sense.

Or without Module.new?

using do
  refine ...
  ...
end

I think this is what I actually wanted to ask for.