From: matt@... (matt neuburg)
Date: 2006-10-28T03:10:11+09:00
Subject: Re: classless methods

Jason Merrill <jason.merrill@yale.edu> wrote:

> 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:
> 
> irb(main):001:0> def say_hello
> irb(main):002:1> "Hello"
> irb(main):003:1> end
> => nil
> irb(main):004:0> say_hello
> => "Hello"
> irb(main):005:0> [1,3,5].say_hello
> => "Hello"

But that's just a vagary of how irb works. You couldn't do that in a
real script. m.


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