From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-04-15T16:49:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's standard objects


"Stephan K�mper" <Stephan.Kaemper@Schleswig-Holstein.de> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag news:c5kat1$2ib6o$1@ID-96582.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Hi Peter,
>
> Peter wrote:
> > Do you mean this?
> >
> > irb(main):001:0> Object.constants
> > => ["TRUE", "SystemStackError", "RubyLex", "MatchData",
"StandardError",
> ...snipped some constant names...
> > "VERSION"]
> >
>
> Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Thanks a lot.
> Amazing, I'm surprised again just _how_ easy things are with Ruby.
> Actually, I admit that this time I'm surprised by the principle of the
> least surprise (which might not be as paradox as it seems at first
> sight). Matz, thanks for this language. :-)

Additonally there is

irb(main):001:0> global_variables
=> ["$-w", "$stderr", "$LOAD_PATH", "$<", "$-0", "$+", "$-p", "$$", "$-i",
"$deferr", "$~", "$!", "$-v", "$stdout", "$_", "$-K", "$-F", "$SAFE",
"$*", "$-I", "$/", "$'", "$-d", "$FILENAME", "$defout", "$@", "$VERBOSE",
"$stdin", "$.", "$KCODE", "$;", "$binding", "$0", "$:", "$,", "$`",
"$DEBUG", "$>", "$-a", "$\"", "$\\", "$=", "$-l", "$?", "$&"]

Regards

    robert