From: Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...>
Date: 2006-06-13T05:59:26+09:00
Subject: top-level methods private?

I understand that methods defined at the top-level, not in any class,
become methods of the class Object. Pickaxe 2 says in its discussion
of the top-level environment (page 293 in my paper copy) "we're
actually creating (private) instance methods for class Object". I
think the "(private)" part is wrong because I can invoke top-level
methods using a receiver, which I shouldn't be able to do for private
methods.

Here's an example.

def foo; puts 'in foo'; end
class Bar; end
bar = Bar.new
bar.foo

Am I misunderstanding this?

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R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.