From: kentda@...
Date: 2001-10-26T00:34:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23308] Re: why the @ s ?

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, ts wrote:
>  You have always a class in ruby, for example when you write (at the
>  toplevel)
>
>   def tt()
>   end
>
>  you have defined a method for the class Object

I thought it only was defined in the instance object, and not the Object
class (which would affect ALL objects)

<SNIP>
verden:/a/homepvvd/d/kentda:(404)$ irb --version
irb 0.6.1(99/09/16)
verden:/a/homepvvd/d/kentda:(405)$ irb
irb(main):001:0> def foobar; puts "FOOBAR"; end
nil
irb(main):002:0> Object.methods.each{|m|  if m=="foobar" then puts m}
irb(main):003:1>
</SNIP>

But thats Ruby 1.6.2, so I could be wrong...


>  @var, at the toplevel, is an instance variable for an object of Object.

Agreed. Thanks for setting this straight.
I forgot that Kernel is a module :-P

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