From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-01-31T06:57:57+09:00
Subject: Re: strange behavior

Hi,

In message "Re: strange behavior"
    on 02/01/31, mengx@nielsenmedia.com <mengx@nielsenmedia.com> writes:

|Introspection can always be played to get things done. What I meant
|was similar behaviors to the statis methods in C++/Java/whatever else. 
|In Ruby, a class object create a new object using "new" method 
|and the new object can access the
|class constants but not the methods, which are in the same context as the
|constants. This is quite different than other languages.

Ruby is following old Smalltalk convention.  For me, C++/Java/whatever
is surprising.

							matz.