From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-04-04T22:01:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Everything is a object?

On Apr 4, 2007, at 7:10 AM, tsela.cg@gmail.com wrote:

> On Apr 4, 12:19 pm, Jamal Soueidan <jkhaledsouei...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I thought keywords are class, def, end, which mean something to the
>> compiler only.
>>
>
> Indeed, and so are begin, rescue, defined?, if, else, and a few
> others. See http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/ 
> language.html#S3
> for a list of the reserved keywords in Ruby. But I don't think your
> view of keywords as being things "which mean something to the compiler
> only" is correct. See keywords just as they are: reserved names that
> you may not use as method or variable names since they are already
> used by the language to mean something specific and unchangeable.

I don't think that's a good definition:

 >> class Example
 >>   def begin
 >>     "I'm a method, not the keyword!"
 >>   end
 >> end
=> nil
 >> Example.new.begin
=> "I'm a method, not the keyword!"

Ruby's a pretty clever girl.  ;)

James Edward Gray II