From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-09-05T03:51:43+09:00
Subject: Re: times is a method?

Hi --

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, 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 ?

methods returns the methods that the object (in this case, the class
object Integer) responds to.

If you do:

   3.methods.include?("times")

you'll get true.


David

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