From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 1999-07-27T08:05:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:00535] Objects in Ruby (Re:  Re: Another way for this? And a new proposal!)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:00534] Re: Another way for this? And a new proposal!"
    on 99/07/26, Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@gmx.net> writes:
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|Okay! Perhaps a hint in FAQ or another document for beginners like
|me? :-) It would be better, if there is a recommended way-of-doing.

Akira the FAQ maintainer will help us, I hope. :-)

|Okay! Now I have understood. Since I have thought all the time, that
|block also are objects (ALL things are object in Ruby ;-) I was not
|aware that the difference is exactly there: block aren't instances,
|Proc objects are!

Not all THINGS are objects in Ruby.  For example, methods, blocks,
variables are non-object concepts.

But all the data entities are uniformly objects.  It's the source of
Ruby's 'easy object-oriented programming'.

                                                matz.