From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-11-21T08:12:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Something like puts

Hi --

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Walton Hoops wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Walton Hoops [mailto:walton@vyper.hopto.org]
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: marnen@marnen.org [mailto:marnen@marnen.org]
>>>
>>> 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.
> [snip]
>> Maybe I'm missing something?
>>
>
> I am.  To answer my own foolish question:
>
> irb(main):021:0> Object.private_methods.sort
> =>[#snip# :foobar #snip#]
> irb(main):022:0>

Mind you:

irb(main):010:0> def x; end
=> nil
irb(main):011:0> "some string".private_methods.grep(/^x/)
=> [:x]

It becomes a private instance method of every object, including the
class object Object, because it's defined inside Object:

irb(main):013:0> Object.private_instance_methods(false).grep(/^x/)
=> [:x]


David

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