From: Alexandru Popescu <the.mindstorm.mailinglist@...>
Date: 2006-06-13T06:36:38+09:00
Subject: Re: top-level methods private?

Using both 1.8.2 and 1.8.4: no... the method foo is invoked.

./alex
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On 6/13/06, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Mark Volkmann wrote:
> > 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?
> >
>
> Don't you get an error when you call bar.foo?
>
> $ ruby -e "
> def foo; puts 'in foo'; end
> class Bar; end
> bar = Bar.new
> bar.foo
> "
> -e:5: private method `foo' called for #<Bar:0xb7dcccec> (NoMethodError)
>
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