From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-08T14:55:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14845] Re: [Q] Why module methods are NOT included by 'include' statement?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:14825] [Q] Why module methods are NOT included by 'include' statement?"
    on 01/05/08, Leonid Razoumov <see_signature@127.0.0.1> writes:

|Ruby has a powerful 'include some_module' statement which imports into the
|current namespace constants, class variables and instance methods defined in
|some_module. However, module methods are NOT imported.  Why so?

Because "include" are intended to include the methods in a module into
a class/module.  I think "including" class/module methods (singleton
methods) is a separate task.  You can "include" them by using either
"extend" or "append_features" (or "included" hook method in 1.7).

							matz.