From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-08-14T17:35:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Module methods in nested modules with 1.8.0


In message "Re: Module methods in nested modules with 1.8.0"
    on 03/08/14, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:

|  irb(main):005:0> def ("x").foo
|  irb(main):006:1> end
|  SyntaxError: compile error
|  (irb):5: can't define single method for literals

|Not so "arbitrary" after all.

No.  But how do you call the defined singleton method, considering the
fact string literals return independent string objects each time they
evaluated.  The error is much better than the singleton method
vanished away.

							matz.