From: Csaba Henk <csaba@..._for_avoiding_spam.org>
Date: 2005-01-26T07:10:48+09:00
Subject: Re: top-level object? top-level methods?

On 2005-01-25, itsme213 <itsme213@hotmail.com> 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(...).

* If you are in an interactive session, or create a 10-line script to
parse stdin which looks like sanitized perl, you don't care about
namespace pollution.

* If you write a "proper" ruby program, you encapsulate your code into
Classes/Modules anyway.

So I think the toplevel namespace pollution is not an issue...

Csaba