Making some of the metaprogramming a bit more explicit and a bit easier to manage. In the process, I have created multiple Util modules, only one of which is used for this current commit.

The main work in this commit is that I created a single, common method for dynamically creating classes and moved all of the Class.new users to using this class.  It handles a lot of the complexity for me, and most of the users have just a couple of lines of code, now, instead of tens.

git-svn-id: https://reductivelabs.com/svn/puppet/trunk@1473 980ebf18-57e1-0310-9a29-db15c13687c0

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diff --git a/lib/puppet/util/metaid.rb b/lib/puppet/util/metaid.rb
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+module Puppet::Util::MetaID
+    # The hidden singleton lurks behind everyone
+    def metaclass; class << self; self; end; end
+    def meta_eval &blk; metaclass.instance_eval &blk; end
+
+    # Adds methods to a metaclass
+    def meta_def name, &blk
+        meta_eval { define_method name, &blk }
+    end
+
+    # Defines an instance method within a class
+    def class_def name, &blk
+        class_eval { define_method name, &blk }
+    end
+end
+
+# $Id$