Marcin Mielzynski wrote: > oinkoink wrote: > > On the quickstart tutorial on the Ruby homepage, > > http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/quickstart/3/ , it says, > > "In Ruby, you can open a class up again and modify it. That doesn't > > change any objects that already exist, but it does affect any new > > objects you create." This is incorrect. For example: > Nope, this is correct. > This in fact changes the object behaviour, but the objects themselves > are not changed. Methods belongs to classes, not objects. > lopex The problem is that the tutorial suggests that objects which have already been created before a class is modified are affected differently from objects which are created after the class is modified.