From: Matt Mower <matt.mower@...>
Date: 2005-01-25T19:47:18+09:00
Subject: Re: top-level object? top-level methods?

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:26:29 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto
<matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> |Is so, why are top-level methods not made singleton-methods on this object,
> |instead of being pulled in as instance methods on the Object class itself
> |(and hence into all other classes i.e. more namespace pollution than is
> |usually intended). This would still allow top-level methods to call other
> |top-level methods. And if the top-level object were referred to by some
> |constant like Main, then those methods could be called from anywhere with
> |Main.method(...).
> 
> Do you really wish to type "Main.print" everywhere?
> 

Shouldn't #print really be in a module somewhere and then included
when I want to be able to "print"..?

M

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