From: smtalim <satish.talim@...>
Date: 2007-04-16T11:15:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Is main an object or a method?

On Apr 16, 4:57 am, Chad Perrin <per...@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."

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