From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-11-13T18:41:50+09:00
Subject: Re: How do module functions work?

From: "Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org>


> |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.

So how does it get copied?  Can it be expressed in Ruby (like attr_accessor),
or is it more magical that that.

> matz.

Gavin