From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2010-11-13T13:15:36+09:00
Subject: Re: what's an object?

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On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 04:59:02PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Instead, if you want to use it, you need to do this:
> >>
> >> =A0 =A0> foo =3D 1.method('+')
> >> =A0 =A0> foo.call(3)
> >> =A0 =A04
>=20
> You can even do
>=20
> irb(main):001:0> foo =3D 1.method '+'
> =3D> #<Method: Fixnum#+>
> irb(main):002:0> foo[3]
> =3D> 4
>=20
> which is pretty close to foo(3).

You appear to be confusing syntax with semantics here.  Sure, brackets
look a little like parentheses -- but they aren't, and they mean very,
very different things in Ruby.


>=20
> >> That's because a "method object" is not a method; it is a proc that wr=
aps
> >> the method and its scope context.
>=20
> Exactly.

So . . . you agree with me.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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