From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-12-16T08:07:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Assigning a block to a variable in Ruby

Mark J. Reed <mreed@thereeds.org> wrote:
> Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> writes:
> >ajmayo@my-deja.com wrote:
> >> evaluate the function with parameter 1, then attempt to print the
> >> function itself (which Javascript will do, printing the text of the
> >> block)
> 
> >Ruby does not do this.
> 
> More specifically: in Ruby, unlike Python and JavaScript, methods are
> *not* variables with closure values.  You can persuade Ruby to turn a
> method into a closure value, but that's not how they live, and methods
> do not occupy variable namespace.  So defining a method 'foo' does not
> have any affect on the variable
> 'foo', or vice versa:

Actually, what I meant was that ruby does not store the source code of
the method anywhere, so it cannot be introspected. 

martin