Undocumented argument on Object#methods

apeiros · July 13, 2007, 12:17pm

Due to a discussion in irc.freenode.org#ruby I stumbled over an
undocumented argument to Object#method. My suggested fix to the
documentation is below, or was it left out intentionally?

Regards
Stefan

in object.c:
/*

call-seq:

obj.methods(singleton=true)    => array

Returns a list of the names of methods publicly accessible in
obj. This will include all the methods accessible in
obj's ancestors.
If singleton is set to false, it will return an array of
obj's
singleton methods.
```
class Klass
```
```
  def kMethod()
```
```
  end
```
```
end
```
```
k = Klass.new
```

k.methods[0..9]    #=> ["kMethod", "freeze", "nil?", "is_a?",

                        "class", "instance_variable_set",

                         "methods", "extend", "__send__",

“instance_eval”]

```
k.methods.length   #=> 42
```
```
def k.kSingletonMethod; end
```

k.methods(false)   # => ["kSingletonMethod"]

*/

apeiros · July 13, 2007, 12:41pm

On 7/13/07, Stefan R. [email protected] wrote:

obj.methods(singleton=true)    => array

```
  end
```
```
end
```
```
k = Klass.new
```

k.methods[0..9]    #=> ["kMethod", "freeze", "nil?", "is_a?",

                        "class", "instance_variable_set",

                         "methods", "extend", "__send__",

“instance_eval”]

```
k.methods.length   #=> 42
```
```
def k.kSingletonMethod; end
```

k.methods(false)   # => ["kSingletonMethod"]

*/

Can you please create a patch according to
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/ruby-core/

and file it to ruby patch tracker:
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=1700&group_id=426&func=browse

Thanks.

Jano

apeiros · July 13, 2007, 4:43pm

Jano S. wrote:

Can you please create a patch according to
Ruby Core

See also the documentation guidelines at

http://ruby-doc.org/documentation-guidelines.html

–
James B.

“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to
assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with
the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

apeiros · July 13, 2007, 5:21pm

James B. wrote:

Jano S. wrote:

Can you please create a patch according to
Ruby Core

See also the documentation guidelines at

Ruby Documentation Submission Guidelines

Thanks to both of you. Any way to work around the read-onlyness (I use
ruby-forum.com) of ruby-core without having to register?

Regards
Stefan

apeiros · July 13, 2007, 7:24pm

Thanks to both of you. Any way to work around the read-onlyness (I use
ruby-forum.com) of ruby-core without having to register?

You can use http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-core-google/ for
reading it more comfortably. I think you will still need to subscribe
to the ML though for posting. (But you can turn off receiving
messages / automatically move them to the trash.)