From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-04-16T13:20:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Is main an object or a method?

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:14:49AM +0900, John Joyce wrote:
> indeed, main is a method of class Thread
> check it with ri
> ri main
> gives you
> Thread.main
> which returns the main thread for the process.
> 
> self is the current object, a synonym if you will.
> Defined as the receiver object of the current method.

Roseanne's evidence seems to corroborate my impression -- that main (in
the context of the main scope of a Ruby program) is an object of type
Object, not a method.  I believe the Thread.main method is a method that
just happens to have the same name as the main instance of Object.

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