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authorshugo <shugo@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2015-11-18 01:08:19 +0000
committershugo <shugo@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2015-11-18 01:08:19 +0000
commit46425732cf33638fc81b94d274b656d0dd4eba4d (patch)
tree33deb12bf8b883c3b9d79fcc1986f3e8eb5af69d /doc
parent9876377040ff710a8c68bea2530aafacf81334ff (diff)
* doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc: update documentation to reflect
recent changes. [ci skip] [ruby-core:71466] [Misc #11681] Patch by James Adam git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@52629 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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diff --git a/doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc b/doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc
index 3ba03f6d58..56fcd7bd1e 100644
--- a/doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc
+++ b/doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc
@@ -43,15 +43,21 @@ Activate the refinement with #using:
== Scope
-You may only activate refinements at top-level, not inside any class, module
-or method scope. You may activate refinements in a string passed to
-Kernel#eval that is evaluated at top-level. Refinements are active until the
-end of the file or the end of the eval string, respectively.
+You may activate refinements at top-level, and inside classes and modules.
+You may not activate refinements in method scope. Refinements are activated
+until the end of the current class or module definition, or until the end of
+the current file if used at the top-level.
-Refinements are lexical in scope. When control is transferred outside the
-scope the refinement is deactivated. This means that if you require or load a
-file or call a method that is defined outside the current scope the refinement
-will be deactivated:
+You may activate refinements in a string passed to Kernel#eval. Refinements
+are active the end of the eval string.
+
+Refinements are lexical in scope. Refinements are only active within a scope
+after the call to using. Any code before the using statement will not have the
+refinement activated.
+
+When control is transferred outside the scope the refinement is deactivated.
+This means that if you require or load a file or call a method that is defined
+outside the current scope the refinement will be deactivated:
class C
end
@@ -136,6 +142,26 @@ In a file:
end
# activated here
+In a class:
+
+ # not activated here
+ class Foo
+ # not activated here
+ def foo
+ # not activated here
+ end
+ using M
+ # activated here
+ def bar
+ # activated here
+ end
+ # activated here
+ end
+ # not activated here
+
+Note that the refinements in M are not activated automatically if the class
+Foo is reopened later.
+
In eval:
# not activated here
@@ -182,24 +208,6 @@ called:
p [{1=>2}, {3=>4}].to_json # prints "[{\"1\":2},{\"3\":4}]"
-You may also activate refinements in a class or module definition, in which
-case the refinements are activated from the point where using is called to
-the end of the class or module definition:
-
- # not activated here
- class Foo
- # not activated here
- using M
- # activated here
- def foo
- # activated here
- end
- # activated here
- end
- # not activated here
-
-Note that the refinements in M are not activated automatically even if the class
-Foo is reopened later.
== Method Lookup