comp.lang.ruby

Robert Dober

8/5/2007 4:38:00 PM

On 8/5/07, ronald braswell <rpbraswell@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >From: "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@gmail.com>
> >Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> >To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
> >Subject: Re: Object.private_instance_methods <--- Kernel.singleton_methods
> >Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 20:30:10 +0900
> >
> >On 8/4/07, ronald braswell <rpbraswell@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > How do the Kernel.singleton_methods get to be
> > > Object.private_instance_methods?
> >Are they? I do not think so, maybe you could rephrase your question, I
> >am probably missing something.
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> >Cheers
> >Robert
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> >
> >--
> >[...] as simple as possible, but no simpler.
> >-- Attributed to Albert Einstein
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> The question was not a good one. I now understand that the Kernel singleton
> methods are copies of private instance methods due to a call to
> module_function on them. Kernel's private instance versions of the methods
> get mixed in with Object as well as its public instance methods. I had not
> noticed that Kernel had private instance variables of the same name as its
> singleton methods.
ah you meant the results, of course, I am the worst guesser of the world :)
R.
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> Ron
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[...] as simple as possible, but no simpler.
-- Attributed to Albert Einstein