From: "Y. NOBUOKA" Date: 2010-11-11T13:25:44+09:00 Subject: Re: what's an object? > Simple answer: everything. Everything is considered an object, > including an instance of a class, the class itself, its methods, etc. There is one thing incorrect. In Ruby, an instance of a class or a class itself is exactly an object, while a method is NOT an object. Although we can obtain a Method object using the *Object#method* method [ http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Object.html#M000336 ], a method itself is not an object. -- NOBUOKA Yuya