From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2001-10-27T17:56:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23611] Re: O'Reilly site has "An Introduction to Ruby"article

Robert Feldt wrote:
> "In Python, methods are objects, which they aren't in Ruby" seems wrong
> given class Method etc, and

That one jumped out on me too, but do note that 
	obj.method(:methodname)
will return different objects (diff id) for the same method, whereas in
Python, any functionname w/o a parenthis will refer to one and the same
object.

So it might be correct to say that methods aren't first-class objects in
Ruby per se. 


> I find "Python supports multiple inheritance, which Ruby does not." a bit
> simplistic since mix-in with modules is not mentioned.

I agree. Mix-ins do, in my view, enable multiple private inheritance (or
implementation inheritance), which only leaves the interface inheritance
point of "vanilla" multiple inheritance hanging.
 

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