From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-11-11T16:51:46+09:00
Subject: Re: what's an object?

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On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Y. NOBUOKA <nobuoka@r-definition.com>wrote:

> > 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.
>
>
This seems self-contradictory, how is a method not an object?

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:55 PM, timr <timrandg@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Alex said everything is an object--including an instance of a class,
> the class itself, its methods. I agree up until he mention methods as
> objects. I don't think that can be demonstrated. For instance, we
> cannot get the object_id of a method. '+.object_id' doesn't work. So,
> I don't agree that methods are objects.
>
>
1.method('+').object_id

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