From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-08-30T09:44:59+09:00
Subject: Re: silly question

Hi,

At Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:29:04 +0900,
Ferenc Engard wrote in [ruby-talk:110908]:
> > > module X
> > > def X.foo; puts "foo"; end
> > > end
> > >
> > > module Y
> > > include X            # what to write here?
> > > def bar; foo(); end  # want to call X.foo
> > > end
> > >
> > > Is it even make sense?
> > 
> > You can do it in Ruby, and it makes a lot of sense. Refer to the
> > pickaxe for details
> > http://phrogz.net/ProgrammingRuby/tut_modules.html#mixins
> 
> That description deals with normal mixin functionality, using instance
> methods. Here I want to use a module method in another module (or class)
> without qualifying it.

X.foo isn't an instance method but a singleton method of X,
that is, it's defined for nothing but X.  So you can never call
it without X.

-- 
Nobu Nakada