The way 'syntax' is implemented in much of Ruby isn't processed by a separate parser, but rather is interpreted during execution of the source to create the obj

The way 'syntax' is implemented in much of Ruby isn't processed by a separate parser, but rather is interpreted during execution of the source to create the objects/classes or modify them to do what is desired by the language feature. Thinking of things this way, it becomes more clear that it's not using the OOP features to get things done but rather mangling them to make pretty DSLs. I would object to too much of that too--except that in this case, I really like pattern matching.