From: Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
Date: 2006-11-13T08:24:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Where is attr_accessor located?

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:16:05AM +0900, Mariano Kamp wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2006, at 8:00 PM, Ross Bamford wrote:
> 
> >>After looking at the rdoc documentation I would have assumed that  
> >>attr_accessor would be a private method of Module, not of Kernel.
> >>
> >
> >It's because:
> >
> >Kernel.is_a?(Module)
> ># => true
> >
> >and the attr* methods are instance methods on Module.
> 
> Yes, I _believe_ I understood that. It is "used" there.
> Maybe that is what I don't get ... Why doesn't the method show up in  
> Module?

Module.is_a? Class                                             # => true
Class.private_instance_methods(false).include? "attr_reader"   # => false
Kernel.is_a? Module                                            # => true
Module.private_instance_methods(false).include? "attr_reader"  # => true


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