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<div class="description"><h1><a href="Instantiable.html">Instantiable</a></h1>
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Initialize modules, almost as if they were classes.
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Alows a module to be used much like a class, by defining a <a
href="Instantiable.html#M000954">new</a> method that creates a class on
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<span style="padding-right: 5px;"><a href="#M000953">append_features</a></span>
<span style="padding-right: 5px;"><a href="#M000954">new</a></span>
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<a name="M000953"></a><b>append_features</b>(mod)
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<span class="ruby-comment cmt"># File lib/more/facets/instantiable.rb, line 32</span>
<span class="ruby-keyword kw">def</span> <span class="ruby-keyword kw">self</span>.<span class="ruby-identifier">append_features</span>(<span class="ruby-identifier">mod</span>)
<span class="ruby-identifier">mod</span>.<span class="ruby-identifier">extend</span> <span class="ruby-keyword kw">self</span>
<span class="ruby-keyword kw">end</span>
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<a name="M000954"></a><b>new</b>(*args,&blk)
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Never use a class agian! ;)
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<span class="ruby-comment cmt"># File lib/more/facets/instantiable.rb, line 38</span>
<span class="ruby-keyword kw">def</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">new</span>(<span class="ruby-operator">*</span><span class="ruby-identifier">args</span>,<span class="ruby-operator">&</span><span class="ruby-identifier">blk</span>)
<span class="ruby-identifier">mod</span> = <span class="ruby-keyword kw">self</span>
<span class="ruby-ivar">@instantiable_class</span> <span class="ruby-operator">||=</span> <span class="ruby-constant">Class</span>.<span class="ruby-identifier">new</span>{<span class="ruby-identifier">include</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">mod</span>}
<span class="ruby-ivar">@instantiable_class</span>.<span class="ruby-identifier">new</span>(<span class="ruby-operator">*</span><span class="ruby-identifier">args</span>,<span class="ruby-operator">&</span><span class="ruby-identifier">blk</span>)
<span class="ruby-keyword kw">end</span>
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