From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-02-01T21:47:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Constant visibility

On Sunday, February 1, 2004, 11:07:11 PM, ts wrote:

>>>>>> "G" == Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:

G>> To my mind, the way things work (scope-wise) should depend on the
G>> value of 'self' and little if not nothing else.

>  well, another example to see that ruby sometimes use something else than
>  self 

> svg% ruby -e 'Array.instance_eval { p self; def a() puts "a"; end }; Array.a'
> Array
> a
> svg%
 
> svg% ruby -e 'Array.module_eval { p self; def a() puts "a"; end }; [].a'
> Array
> a
> svg% 


Good point.  Still the exception rather than the rule, I hope :)

Gavin