From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-02-04T04:10:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Performance hit of define_method

Hi --

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Feb 3, 2007, at 2:34 AM, Robert Dober wrote:
>
>> But  I realize that I do not know how to distinguish between Core
>> and STL.
>
> If you can use it without a require, it's core Ruby.  Array, Enumerable, and 
> Hash are examples.
>
> If it comes with Ruby (no extra install), but you must require it to use it, 
> it's a standard library.  OpenStruct, Logger, and WEBrick are examples.

And "extra install" does not include extra installs made necessary by
the dismemberment of Ruby into multiple packages by third parties :-)


David

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