From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-17T23:35:00+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the point?

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:30:08PM +0900, Jim Freeze wrote:
> I've known for some time that methods can be defined inside
> methods, but I am still wondering what's the point.

FYI, they can't in 1.6.8:

$ cat x.rb
  def fred
    def x
      puts "x"
    end
    x
  end
$ ruby x.rb
x.rb:2: nested method definition