From: Greg Weeks <gregweeks@...>
Date: 2007-11-11T17:11:06+09:00
Subject: Re: bug in nested defs (?)

Ryan Davis wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2007, at 23:40 , Greg Weeks wrote:
> 
>>  not a class, then the method is a singleton method of the context
>>  object.
> 
> not quite. see "Defining a Method" of the pickaxe ed 2 on page 330.

In my copy, the heading is "Method Definition", and it begins on pg 345.
Are you referring to the paragraph that begins with "Outside a class or
module definition"?  That refers to the top-level (I believe).  I
omitted that example deliberately since a person who typed it in would
mess up the subsequent examples.  Here it is:

    def foo ; "foo" ;end
    [].foo    # works

By the way, I regret my statement that the rule that I stated was ugly.
I thought that I was being self-deprecating about my phrasing of the
rule.  But on second thought, neither the phrasing nor the rule is ugly.

However, it doesn't seem to work in the Definer/User example.
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