From: Trans Date: 2005-11-10T09:37:13+09:00 Subject: Re: to which object does the global scope belong? It becomes a public Object instance method: irb(main):001:0> def goooooooo; end => nil irb(main):002:0> Object.public_instance_methods(false).sort => ["goooooooo", "is_complex_yaml?", "to_yaml", "to_yaml_properties", "to_yaml_type"] T.