From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-03-16T11:43:33-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01916] Re: I'm stumped...!

"David Douthitt" <DDouthitt@cuna.com> writes:

> The note about "....or what the documentation calls a singleton method"
> helps.  Yet, why does the following snippet from the code WORK when
> the others fail?
> 
> ConfigFile.open(oratab).each_line { |line|
>    line.chomp!;
>    print line, "\n";
>    }

Because here you're bypassing your open method and using File's.

Dave