2009/12/14 Florian Gilcher <flo / andersground.net>:
>
> On 13 dñÄ. 2009, at 23:46, Ruby Newbee <rubynewbee / gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have two questions,
>>
>> 1. what's the difference between class method and module method?
>> 2. when I say: Dir.pwd, is this a class method or a module method? How
>> to know if Dir is a module or a class?
>
> If you check Class.ancestors, you will find that classes are modules. The
> only difference is that classes have methods like #new and #allocate. So,n
> your case: it doesn't really matter, but you could check:
>
> ir.respond_to? :new

There is a more direct variant which is also safer (you can make a
module respond to :new):

irb(main):001:0> Dir.class
=> Class
irb(main):002:0> Enumerable.class
=> Module
irb(main):003:0>

> For the methods themselves, there is no difference anyways: they belong to
> objects. Whether that is a class, a module or something else make so
> difference.

That's true - technically.  There is still a semantic difference:
class objects are always singletons while instances are typically
many.  This mainly determines what functionality goes into a class
method and what into an instance method.

Kind regards

robert

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