From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-10-27T00:08:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23463] Re: Singleton methods and instance methods with same name?

>>>>> "L" == Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@resgen.com> writes:

L> After a quick experiment I've confirmed that Ruby's OK with having class
L> (singleton) methods and instance methods with the same name, but is this
L> inherently evil?

 Well, in this case ruby is evil :-)

 File::chown, File#chown, File::chmod, File#chmod, etc
 IO::readlines, IO#readlines, IO::read, IO#read
 Array::[], Array#[], Hash::[], Hash#[]
 Thread::abort_on_exception(=), Thread#abort_on_exception(=)
 Module::constants, Modules#constants

 etc


Guy Decoux