From: Aleks Kissinger <aleks0@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T06:40:25+09:00
Subject: Re: "Self" confusion

Well, in both cases, it refers to an object.  When you are in the
top-level of a class definition, "self" actually refers to the class
object.  That is to say, the instance of Class your new class
definition creates.

class Foo
  puts self
  puts self.class
end

=> Foo
=> Class

So using self adds a method to the object "self", which happens to be
an instance of class.  ie. class methods.

On 7/25/06, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks everybody, this really helps!
> So top level is an Object singleton referenced through 'self'.
>
> I think I get it.
>
> Part of my problem was that 'self' refers to the enclosing class when
> using def self.x, but within the new function, self refers to an
> object. Very interesting.
>
> Les
>
>