From: Jason Mayer <slamboy@...>
Date: 2006-12-20T23:19:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple copy of attributes

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On 12/20/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Jason Mayer wrote:
> > I'm sorry for this question, but I'm a newbie and I just started reading
> the
> > Little Book of Ruby.  On page 22 it says that "the to_s method is
> defined
> > for the Object class itself".  If the Object class has no methods (as
> your
> > irb session shows), then what exactly is meant by the Little Book of
> Ruby
> > statement?
>
> That's a good example. Technically, #to_s is defined in Kernel not
> Object. But since everyithing in Kernel is defined ultimately for
> Object b/c Kernel is included into Object, then in a round about way
> what the book is true. It would be better if it mentioned Kernel's
> invovlement though.
>
> t.
>
>
> Thanks, that clears it up for me.  Doing p Kernel.instance_methods(false)
shows me exactly what I wanted to see.  Thanks again!

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