Class: Module

Inherits:
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#prepend(module) ⇒ Object



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# File 'ext/prepend/prepend.c', line 24

static VALUE
rb_prepend_module(VALUE klass, VALUE module)
{
  /* create wrapper module to hold current class's M_TBL */
  VALUE class_mod_wrapper = rb_module_new();
  VALUE name;

  /* clear the default M_TBL already allocated for the new wrapper module */
  st_free_table(RCLASS_M_TBL(class_mod_wrapper));

  /* set the wrapper module's M_TBL to the current class's */
  RCLASS_M_TBL(class_mod_wrapper) = RCLASS_M_TBL(klass);

  /* store name of current class in wrapper module for use by #to_s and #inspect */
  if (NIL_P(rb_mod_name(klass)))
    name = rb_str_new2("Anon");
  else
    name = rb_mod_name(klass);

  rb_iv_set(class_mod_wrapper, "__class_name__", name);

  /* set current class's #to_s to return ClassName* */
  rb_define_singleton_method(klass, "to_s", klass_to_s, 0);

  /* set wrapper module's #to_s to name of current class */
  rb_define_singleton_method(class_mod_wrapper, "to_s", class_mod_wrapper_to_s, 0);

  /* erase the current class's M_TBL as we're now storing it in the wrapper module */
  RCLASS_M_TBL(klass) = st_init_numtable();
  
  /* include the wrapper module first */
  rb_funcall(klass, rb_intern("include"), 1, class_mod_wrapper);

  /* include the module we want to 'prepend' second, so that its M_TBL gets precedence over M_TBL of original class
     (NB: original class's M_TBL is now stored in wrapper module) */
  rb_funcall(klass, rb_intern("include"), 1, module);
  
  rb_clear_cache();

  return klass;
}