From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-05-25T22:36:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Where is initialize originally defined?

ts wrote:

> M> I wonder where I can find a downloadable documentation in which all 
> M> methods are visible. And I wonder why the document on RubyCentral that I 
> M> mentioned _does_ list for example the method method_missing (which seems 
> M> to be private as well) but doesn't list initialize.
> 
>  Object#initialize is a private method defined in Object
> 
>  method_missing is a global function, i.e. a module function of Kernel.
> 
>  The pickaxe describe only method defined in Kernel, and this explain why
>  Object#initialize is not described (and this must be the only exception)

I'll probably add it in for 1.8; I hadn't done it before because it 
didn't seem to fit there, but now that we have allocation as a function 
it shou;d go in for completeness.


Cheers


Dave