From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-10-23T04:06:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Why ??



On Oct 22, 7:25 am, Sebastian Hungerecker <sep...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Trans wrote:
> > The toplevel object (aka 'main') delegates some module-equivalent
> > methods to Object class.
>
> As far as I'm aware it "delegates" only alias, undef, def, module and class.
> So it only delegates keywords, not methods. Which is, I assume, why def works
> and define_method (which is a method) does not.

Good point. I never really looked at like that b/c I tend to think of
keywords as syntax sugar for real methods.

  class  ->  Class.new
  def    ->  define_method
  alias  ->  alias_method
  etc.

Conditionals are an exception, of course.

But it sort of begs the question, why does it support the one and not
the other?

T.