From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-08-18T02:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: using a module at the toplevel doesn't work


Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> I don't think I understand you.  Can you elaborate?

Sure thing. It seems natural to me that "main" would a module of the
form:

  module Main
    extend self
  end

Such a module provides all the characteristics of the toplevel --def,
include, etc.

Hmmm.... now that I spell it out.... Given that every method defined in
main becomes a private method of Object, this Main object looks a whole
lot like Kernel itself. So maybe that's a better way to think about it:
Why isn;t the toplevel Kernel (w/toplevel methods being private methods
of Kernel)?

T.