From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-06-28T15:32:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16990] Re: Introspection and 'where's the source'?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:16976] Introspection and 'where's the source'?"
    on 01/06/28, Johann Hibschman <johann@physics.berkeley.edu> writes:

|Is there any way that you can find the source code of a ruby method
|or class by introspecting it?  In Python, I believe, functions carry
|around information about the source file and line position at which
|they were defined.  Is there a similar feature in Ruby?

Do __FILE__ and __LINE__ work for you?

|I'm wondering, since Ruby inherits a bit from Smalltalk, and one of
|the nicer features of smalltalk is the way in which you can just
|browse through the source of everything while you're debugging.
|(At least in Squeak, you can.  I'm not all that experienced with
|Smalltalk, either, but it's a neat feature.)

Yes, It's neat.  But I had abandoned the feature for Ruby to be more
"normal" language.

							matz.