From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-09-05T03:49:12+09:00
Subject: Re: times is a method?


On Sep 4, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Dick Davies wrote:

> On 04/09/06, Troy Denkinger <tdenkinger@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps I misunderstood the OP, but it looks like he's wanting to  
>> walk the
>> inheritance tree looking for the method which defines the "times"  
>> method.
>> It's actually in Integer.  The "times" method is different than  
>> the "*"
>> method, by the way.
>
> I think you understood him right, and you're correct according to ri,
> so why does
>
> Integer.methods.include? 'times'
>
> return false ?
>

% irb --prompt simple
 >> Integer.times { puts "Whee" }
NoMethodError: undefined method `times' for Integer:Class
         from (irb):1

This is not the droid you are looking for

 >> Integer.instance_methods.include? 'times'
=> true



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