From: George Ogata <george.ogata@...>
Date: 2006-11-26T21:36:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling methods from within singleton class

On 11/25/06, Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> class << Foo
>  def foo
>    "foo"
>  end
> end

This defines a `foo' method on instances of Foo's singleton class, namely Foo.

> class << Foo
>  foo
> end
>
> ... NameError ...

This calls `foo' on Foo's singleton class, not Foo.

Note that "#<Class:Foo>" is #inspect-ese for "Foo's singleton class",
not "Foo"... ;-)

G.