From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2005-01-26T00:07:19+09:00
Subject: Re: top-level object? top-level methods?

ts schrieb:
>>>>>>"M" == Matt Mower <matt.mower@gmail.com> writes:
> M> require 'pp'
> 
>  Hey, you can't write this :-)
> 
>  You must write
> 
>   Main.require 'pp'

I think the original poster asked why

   def do_something
     p "hi"
   end

becomes a private method of Object instead of a singleton method of a top-level 
object/module called "Main". He didn't want to prefix all Object/Kernel methods 
with Main.

Why should, after the definition above, the following be legal as it is today:

   Time.send :do_something  # => "hi"

("Time" is just an example. You can substitute any other object.)

The suggested behavior would be

   Time.send :do_something  # => NoMethodError

   Main.do_something  # => "hi"

I like this proposal. Would there be any drawbacks?

Regards,
Pit