From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-05-18T18:07:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Object#select and method_missing

ts wrote:
> 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
> 

pickaxe2 says the the types of methods in a Module are:

1) module methods(i.e. like class methods)
2) instance methods.

I guess to make things more confusing, you are calling the module 
methods "singleton methods".  I understand why. But why are you calling 
the instance methods "private methods"?


>  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

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