From: oinkoink+unet@... (Bret Jolly)
Date: 2003-05-05T05:35:34+09:00
Subject: Re: GC.garbage_collect

"Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote in message news:<0ee501c31209$5992bba0$0300a8c0@austin.rr.com>...
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org>
> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 1:32 AM
> Subject: Re: GC.garbage_collect

> > % ri garbage_collect
> > The method named `garbage_collect' is not unique among Ruby's classes
> > and modules:
> >      GC#garbage_collect, ObjectSpace::garbage_collect
> > % ri GC#garbage_collect
> > ----------------------------------------------------- GC#garbage_collect
> >      garbage_collect -> nil
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >      Equivalent to GC::start.
> >         include GC
> >         garbage_collect   #=> nil

> > See?

> It's a little unusual that two equivalent methods
> should be defined at different levels. Usually
> both are instance level or both class/module level.

> I *think* that was what confused Bret.

  I think that was it.  Thanks for the help, guys.
 
                        Regards, Bret