From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-14T12:14:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03995] Re: Pluggable functions and blocks

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:03972] RE:  Pluggable functions and blocks"
    on 00/07/13, Aleksi Niemel� <aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

|  Ruby doesn't have unbounded methods as first class data, 
|
|which makes me wonder why - it's such a marvellous OO lang with dedication
|for first-classness.
|
|Why we have bounded methods, like blocks, but not semibounded, like instance
|methods, nor unbounded, like classmethods?

Besids blocks, We have bound methods, which are generated by
Object#method.  I guess method can not be separated from its receiver.
In addition, We have implementation obstacle too.

							matz.