From: Navindra Umanee <navindra@...>
Date: 2005-02-28T12:33:35+09:00
Subject: Re: is_defined?

Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
>   def foo; end
>   defined?(foo) # => "method"
> 
> Both of the following return "constant."
> 
>   class Foo; end
>   module Bar; end
>   defined?(Foo) # => "constant"
>   defined?(Bar) # => "constant"

Out of curiosity, why doesn't this work:

irb(main):014:0> defined? defined?
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):14: syntax error
        from (irb):14

Cheers,
Navin.