From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-07-20T00:05:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language?

Mark Volkmann ha scritto:
> On 7/19/05, Stefan Lang <langstefan@gmx.at> wrote:
> 
>>There are no static methods in Ruby
>>(there is always a "self")
> 
> 
> Is there some difference between what is called a "class method" in
> Ruby and what is called a "static method" in Java?  They seem the same
> to me.

a class method (as in in ruby) has a reference to an actual object, 
self, while a static method lacks it.