From: Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Date: 2006-01-12T14:16:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question: find source code of Enumerable, Comparable  etc.

gtcc2009@yahoo.com wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I'm new to Ruby and trying to read the source, beside the books, to
>understand the language. While I can find the source for many library
>classes in the folder lib/ruby/1.8, I cannot find the source for
>classes such as Kernel, Enumerable, Comparable, String, Array etc.
>
>Is there any hint on where I can find those source files?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dor
>
>
>  
>
These are probably written in C (I'm sure someone will confirm this).  
Kernel almost has to be written in C.

The full source for ruby can be downloaded from the CVS at ruby-lang.org

Kev