From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2008-05-18T01:51:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Object#select and method_missing

7stud -- wrote:
> I tried to model how Object mixes in Kernel and thereby recreate what
> the op's results were.  Is that not the way it works?

 In the example given, #select is a global function this mean
  * a private method of Kernel
  * a singleton method of Kernel

 This is to give the possibility to *all* objects to access these
 methods 

 When it's called 'self.select', ruby find the private method but
 because a receiver is specified (it's called like a public method),
 it call #method_missing (this was not the right method).

 When it's called 'select', it find the same method and it call it
 because it was called without a receiver



Guy Decoux