From: Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner@...>
Date: 2006-10-28T02:57:17+09:00
Subject: Re: classless methods

From: jwmerrill@gmail.com [mailto:jwmerrill@gmail.com] On 
> And since Object is an ancestor of pretty much everything in ruby,
> it's interesting to note that these methods are now defined for
> practically everything in ruby:

[snip]

You're being fooled by some tricks that irb plays to make itself work.

In non-irb, these methods are private methods of Object, and not
immediately callable:

def say_hello; "Hello"; end
[1,2,3].say_hello
#=> tmp.rb:2: private method `say_hello' called for [1, 2, 3]:Array
(NoMethodError)