From: matt@... (matt neuburg)
Date: 2009-02-19T05:14:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel#blah is documented as Object#blah. Why?

Rob Biedenharn <Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com> wrote:

> On Feb 18, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Alex Fortuna wrote:
> > Hi guys.
> >
> > There are certain common methods that originate from module Kernel,
> > but
> > they're documented in class Object.
> >
> > E.g.
> >
> >> o = Object.new
> >> => #<Object:0xb76826c8>
> >> o.method :send
> >> => #<Method: Object(Kernel)#send>
> >
> > method's #inspect clearly shows that #send originates from Kernel,
> > but:
> >
> > $ ri Kernel#send
> > Nothing known about Kernel#send
> > $ ri Object#send
> > (ri page on #send)
> >
> > Why this kind of confusion? Why not making methods like #send,  
> > #kind_of?
> > and a bunch of others *ACTUALLY* belong to Object, thus making
> > method.inspect() more accurate in terms of pointing to the proper  
> > place
> > in the documentation?
> 
> 
> Or use a different program for searching the ri docs, like fastri

Fastri has been broken for months OMM.

$ fri Object
(druby://127.0.0.1:50026) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in
`transfer': invalid subclass (TypeError)
        from (druby://127.0.0.1:50026)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `node_import'
        from (druby://127.0.0.1:50026)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
        from (druby://127.0.0.1:50026)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
        from (druby://127.0.0.1:50026)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_descriptions.rb:72:in `deserialize'
        from (druby://127.0.0.1:50026)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_index.rb:354:in `get_class'
        from (druby://127.0.0.1:50026)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_index.rb:354:in `open'
        from (druby://127.0.0.1:50026)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_index.rb:354:in `get_class'
        from (druby://127.0.0.1:50026)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_index.rb:352:in `each'
        from (druby://127.0.0.1:50026)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_index.rb:352:in `get_class'
        from (druby://127.0.0.1:50026)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_service.rb:209:in `info'
        from (druby://127.0.0.1:50026)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_service.rb:422:in
`capture_stdout'
        from (druby://127.0.0.1:50026)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fastri/ri_service.rb:208:in `info'
        from /usr/local/bin/fri:342
        from /usr/local/bin/fri:337:in `each'
        from /usr/local/bin/fri:337

m.

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