From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2011-05-03T02:04:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Understanding Ruby Inside Out

Robert K. wrote in post #996173:
>

I second what Robert said.  Dredging up C code is not the way to 
understand ruby.  You should learn how to use ruby up to an 
intermedidate level first, and then for the really cool stuff read 
"Metaprogramming Ruby".  Why things work is not at all useful.  How 
things work is much more important.  If you just have to look at source 
code, this would be the way to go:

> Or grab Rubinius' source code to see Ruby implemented in Ruby.

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> Like, assume for a moment that the rand method you defined
> as an example above really was an embedded function in
> Ruby that I didn't have to define before I can use it.
> (I assume it isn't, right?)

Wrong. rand() is a standard ruby method that you can call (it's defined 
in Kernel).  rand() is a common method that is included in most 
programming languages.

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