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Quite a few things in the standard library (and a few of my personal projects) undefine methods from parent classes (for example, Class inherits from Module but undefs refine and module_function). Having syntax for it would be helpful.

Hmm. The syntax would be something like:

class Class
  undef refine

  undef self.module_function       # Example for singleton method
end

And we can implement it by removing the entry from Definition#methods or adding a special entry.

The way ruby does it is it actually creates a new method in the class, but gives it the "UNDEF" visibility. We could try something similar

A concern is that undefs actively break polymorphism, though this would be Ruby’s issue, not RBS’s.