From: Gene Tani <gene.tani@...>
Date: 2005-12-23T14:22:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Why not Python? (No, no, I am not a spy)


dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Brian Mitchell wrote:
>
> > On 12/22/05, J. Ryan Sobol <ryansobol@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Excuse my newbi-ness, but isn't that "self rule" for class methods
> >> similar in Ruby?  E.g.
> >>
> >> class A
> >>         def self.a_class_method
> >>                 puts "A class method"
> >>         end
> >> # OR
> >>         def A.another_class_method
> >>                 puts "Another class method"
> >>         end
> >> end
> >
> > OR
> >
> > class A
> >  class << self
> >    def foo; end
> >  end
> > end
> >
> > OR
> >
> > class A
> >  class << A
> >    def foo; end
> >  end
> > end
>
> Also:
>
>    class A
>    end
>
> and then:
>
>    class << A
>      def foo; end
>    end
>
> or
>
>    def A.foo
>    end
>

let's not forget

def ClassName::clsmeth(params)
end

(either inside or outside class def, so that's 5 ways to do it inside
class def, 3 outside for those keeping score at home, mostly python
hyperenthusiasts