From: Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Date: 2007-01-10T01:51:35+09:00
Subject: Re: with and without initialize method

Stefano Crocco wrote:
> The methods you defined are instance methods, i.e they must be called 
> using
> instances of the class as receiver; you can't call them from the class
> themselves. You need to call new because new returns an instance of the
> class. In the first case, where you don't define initialize, the 
> initialize
> method of the base class (Object) is called.

Thanks and it helps. But when  I check which methods are available in 
class Object I can't see initialize there. Do I miss something?

Li


irb(main):003:0> puts Object.methods{|m|m.to_s}.sort
...
id
include?
included_modules
inspect
instance_eval
instance_method
instance_methods
instance_of?
instance_variable_get
instance_variable_set
instance_variables
is_a?
...
=> nil



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