From: jstern@... (Josh Stern)
Date: 2001-01-21T17:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9637] Re: 101 Misconceptions About Dynamic Languages

Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@zetabits.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In message "[ruby-talk:9594] Re: 101 Misconceptions About Dynamic Languages"
>    on 01/01/20, Josh Stern <jstern@foshay.citilink.com> writes:
>
>|At http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/compar.html, Matz says
>|"Ruby's functions (methods) are not first class objects"
>|but I don't understand this point, actually.
>
>Well, it was so.  I added method object since then, and forgot to
>update the comparison.

Thanks for the clarification, the Method class had slipped my
my mind.  I gather from the discussion and a glance at the
documentation, but not the code, that Method behaves much
like a class wrapping my reinvented tuple.  But the documentation
doesn't mention how one could, for example, get the Symbol for
the method.  Might be useful for testing equivalence, no?

-= Josh