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Subject: Decorating one method of a class C with another method of class C?
From: Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com>
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Is there a way of decorating method1 of class C using method2 of class C?

It seems like there's a chicken-and-the-egg problem; the class doesn't
seem to know what "self" is until later in execution so there's
apparently no way to specify @self.method2 when def'ing method1.