From: ronald braswell <rpbraswell@...>
Date: 2007-08-06T01:14:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Object.private_instance_methods <--- Kernel.singleton_methods




>From: "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@gmail.com>
>Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
>To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
>Subject: Re: Object.private_instance_methods <--- Kernel.singleton_methods
>Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 20:30:10 +0900
>
>On 8/4/07, ronald braswell <rpbraswell@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > How do the Kernel.singleton_methods get to be
> > Object.private_instance_methods?
>Are they? I do not think so, maybe you could rephrase your question, I
>am probably missing something.
>
>Cheers
>Robert
>
>
>--
>[...] as simple as possible, but no simpler.
>-- Attributed to Albert Einstein
>

The question was not a good one.  I now understand that the Kernel singleton 
methods are copies of private instance methods due to a call to 
module_function on them.   Kernel's private instance versions of the methods 
get mixed in with Object as well as its public instance methods.  I had not 
noticed that Kernel had private instance variables of the same name as its 
singleton methods.

Ron

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