From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-11-13T18:10:17+09:00
Subject: Re: How do module functions work?

Hi,

In message "How do module functions work?"
    on 02/11/13, "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:

|Why do you have to use Module#module_function in order to be able to call
|
|  Foo::bar()
|
|?
|
|And why does it create a copy of the method?  I don't understand the mechanics
|at play here.

Instance methods and class methods (or module method) are totally
different entities, so that you have to copy instance methods to make
them callable as class methods.

							matz.