From: Love U Ruby <lists@...>
Date: 2013-02-27T03:19:46+09:00
Subject: Confusion with self within methods.

To see who is playing the role of `self` in `nested methods`, I tried
the below code:

    def test
      p "#{self}"
      def show
        p "#{self}"
      end
    end
    # => nil

As an effect, I got the two objects below:

    Object.new.test
    "#<Object:0x00000002212d78>"
    # => nil
    Object.new.test.show
    "#<Object:0x00000002205330>" #<~~~ this is self understood
    "" #<~~~ how this one came?
    # => ""

But from the encoded numbers, I couldn't understand which class those
objects belong to. And I tried the code below and got the respective
`class` names.

    Object.new.test.class
    "#<Object:0x000000021ff3b8>"
    # => NilClass
    Object.new.test.show.class
    "#<Object:0x000000020660b0>"
    ""
    # => String


So can anyone help me to understand the concept of how the above code
produced those `class` names?

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