On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:16:05AM +0900, Mariano Kamp wrote:
>  On Nov 12, 2006, at 8:00 PM, Ross Bamford wrote:
>  
>  >>After looking at the rdoc documentation I would have assumed that  
>  >>attr_accessor would be a private method of Module, not of Kernel.
>  >>
>  >
>  >It's because:
>  >
>  >Kernel.is_a?(Module)
>  ># => true
>  >
>  >and the attr* methods are instance methods on Module.
>  
>  Yes, I _believe_ I understood that. It is "used" there.
>  Maybe that is what I don't get ... Why doesn't the method show up in  
>  Module?

Module.is_a? Class                                             # =>  true
Class.private_instance_methods(false).include? "attr_reader"   # =>  false
Kernel.is_a? Module                                            # =>  true
Module.private_instance_methods(false).include? "attr_reader"  # =>  true


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