From: Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@...>
Date: 2011-04-18T14:37:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Telnet "More?"

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Eric T. <erictetz@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> It still strikes me odd that Kernel#print is not static (does it modify
> Kernel state?), or if it *is* static that you can't just pass it as-is
> to anything that requires a callable.

Methods (like blocks) aren't objects, though (like blocks) they can be
reified as objects, consequently methods, as such, can't be passed to
other methods. (One side effect -- or possibly motivating reason --
for this is that Ruby methods can be called without parens, including
no-arg methods. If methods were objects accessible by the method name,
reference to the method as an object would be -- assuming the most
obvious syntax -- ambiguous with a method call without parens.)

And Ruby doesn't have static methods the way Java does. While Ruby
does have class/module methods, they are just instance methods on an
object (because in Ruby, classes and modules are objects.)