From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T04:33:35+09:00
Subject: "Self" confusion

Can someone explain why the following produces different results? In
another question I wrote that by default, programs run inside the
definition-space of Object, but now I think that I was wrong:

class Yoghurt
  def self.a
    "yoghurt self"
  end
  def Yoghurt.a
    "yoghurt"
  end

  p Yoghurt.a
  p self.a
end


def self.a
 "object self"
end
def Object.a
 "object"
end

p Object.a
p self.a

------------------------Output:
"yoghurt self"
"yoghurt self"
"object"
"object self"