From: John Kaurin <jkaurin@...>
Date: 2001-05-05T12:11:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14697] Re: Class refresher please.

As Homer would say: DOH!!!

It was a long week.

"Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org> wrote in message news:86itjgfz7i.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org...
> At Sat, 5 May 2001 08:41:23 +0900,
> John Kaurin wrote:
> > Question 1:
> >
> > What is generating the nil in the output?
>
> `p a1' in B#b1, because `a1' returns nil which `p "A$a1"' returns.
>
> > Question 2:
> >
> > Why does B#b1 recognize A#a1?
>
> It's not the class B but the instance (o) that receives the message
> `a1'.  So the answer is, because the `o' has a method called `a1'.
>
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