From: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@...>
Date: 2005-07-20T00:16:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language?

On 7/19/05, gabriele renzi <surrender_it@remove-yahoo.it> wrote:
> 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.


And what is the practical implication of this?


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