From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2004-03-19T08:25:45+09:00
Subject: Re: calling outer-scope method of same name

Hi David,

From: "David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net>
[...]
> Kernel.spleen("foo")

Here's what I'm getting:

$ cat test.rb

def spleen(a)
  puts "spleen: #{a}"
end

class Blah
  def spleen
    Kernel.spleen("foo")
  end
end

Blah.new.spleen

$ ruby -v test.rb
ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i686-linux]
test.rb:8:in `spleen': private method `spleen' called for Kernel:Module
(NoMethodError)
        from test.rb:12


...The "outer" spleen is a private method?

I think I'm missing something.... (a brain? :)


Confused,

Bill