From: "Daniel Schüle" <uval@...>
Date: 2005-11-10T08:42:13+09:00
Subject: Re: to which object does the global scope belong?

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> def foobar;"foobar";end
> 
> p Kernel.private_methods.grep(/foo/)                  # ["foobar"]
> p Kernel.private_instance_methods(false).grep(/foo/)  # []
> #   (Modules don't have instances)

mond:/pool/PROG/ruby # irb
irb(main):001:0> def foo;"foo";end
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> Kernel.private_methods.grep /foo/
=> []
irb(main):003:0> Kernel.public_methods.grep /foo/
=> ["foo"]
irb(main):004:0>

maybe you meant public_methods?

I noticed that modules may have pub/pro/pri methods
since these methods become instance methods by mix-ing into a class
do these qualifiers provide later visiability to class instance methods?

Regards, Daniel