From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2006-09-05T05:23:25+09:00
Subject: Re: times is a method?

On 04/09/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Dick Davies wrote:

> > 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.

Thanks all - finally got the difference between
Integer#times and Integer.times - it's only taken me three
years :D

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