From: Satish Talim <satish.talim@...>
Date: 2007-04-16T10:06:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Is main an object or a method?

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Hi Chad,

I stand corrected.

That was the impression I was carrying when I started learning Ruby (and
coming from a long Java background). I realized my folly a long time back
and corrected my statement here -
http://sitekreator.com/satishtalim/first_program.html

but forgot to correct the same at the url you mention. Thanks for pointing
it out - it's now corrected.

Satish

On 4/16/07, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
>
> I was surprised, while reading Satish Talim's ruby tutorial, to discover
> that main is actually a method -- at least, it is according to the Open
> Classes section of the tutorial:
>
>   http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/ruby_open_classes.html
>
> To quote:
>
>   Please note that self.class refers to Object and self refers to method
>   main. Therefore while running this program you are executing the main
>   method of object Object.
>
> Is that correct?  I would have thought main was an instance of Object,
> and thus was an object itself, not a method of class Object.  Using
> Object.methods within irb doesn't list a main method, so I'm skeptical.
>
> --
> CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
> Brian K. Reid: "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."
>
>

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