From: Walton Hoops <walton@...>
Date: 2009-11-21T07:45:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Something like puts

> -----Original Message-----
> From: marnen@marnen.org [mailto:marnen@marnen.org]
> Walton Hoops wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I think this has something to do with Modules not mixing in, uh,
> class
> >> methods.  Frankly, I'm not following the arguments.
> >>
> >>
> >> So ... what is the right way to create a function like puts that is
> >> known everywhere?
> >
> >
> > Maybe I'm missing something, but I think what you want is to just
> > define it in the default global scope:
> [...]
> 
> Right.  Which actually puts it in Object.  I had forgotten about the
> syntactic sugar.
> 

Does it? I've heard that before, but this seems to indicate otherwise.

irb(main):001:0> def foobar()
irb(main):002:1> "Foo"
irb(main):003:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):004:0> Object.methods.sort
=> [:!, :!=, :!~, :<, :<=, :<=>, :==, :===, :=~, :>, :>=, :__id__, :__send__, :a
llocate, :ancestors, :autoload, :autoload?, :class, :class_eval, :class_exec, :c
lass_variable_defined?, :class_variable_get, :class_variable_set, :class_variabl
es, :clone, :const_defined?, :const_get, :const_missing, :const_set, :constants,
 :define_singleton_method, :display, :dup, :enum_for, :eql?, :equal?, :extend, :
freeze, :frozen?, :gem, :hash, :include?, :included_modules, :inspect, :instance
_eval, :instance_exec, :instance_method, :instance_methods, :instance_of?, :inst
ance_variable_defined?, :instance_variable_get, :instance_variable_set, :instanc
e_variables, :is_a?, :kind_of?, :method, :method_defined?, :methods, :module_eva
l, :module_exec, :name, :new, :nil?, :object_id, :private_class_method, :private
_instance_methods, :private_method_defined?, :private_methods, :protected_instan
ce_methods, :protected_method_defined?, :protected_methods, :public_class_method
, :public_instance_method, :public_instance_methods, :public_method, :public_met
hod_defined?, :public_methods, :public_send, :remove_class_variable, :respond_to
?, :send, :singleton_methods, :superclass, :taint, :tainted?, :tap, :to_enum, :t
o_s, :trust, :untaint, :untrust, :untrusted?]
irb(main):005:0> o = Object.new
=> #<Object:0x2add480>
irb(main):006:0> o.methods.sort
=> [:!, :!=, :!~, :==, :===, :=~, :__id__, :__send__, :class, :clone, :define_si
ngleton_method, :display, :dup, :enum_for, :eql?, :equal?, :extend, :freeze, :fr
ozen?, :gem, :hash, :inspect, :instance_eval, :instance_exec, :instance_of?, :in
stance_variable_defined?, :instance_variable_get, :instance_variable_set, :insta
nce_variables, :is_a?, :kind_of?, :method, :methods, :nil?, :object_id, :private
_methods, :protected_methods, :public_method, :public_methods, :public_send, :re
spond_to?, :send, :singleton_methods, :taint, :tainted?, :tap, :to_enum, :to_s,
:trust, :untaint, :untrust, :untrusted?]
irb(main):007:0>

Maybe I'm missing something?