Thanks, that's what I want... I wrote a small program to find out methods in 
an object's hierachy. I think it may be used for auto-completion. RDE's 
auto-completion is IMHO not as good as delphi's...

Shannon

>From: nobu.nokada / softhome.net
>Reply-To: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org
>To: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
>Subject: Re: "methods" method
>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:34:38 +0900
>
>Hi,
>
>At Thu, 5 Dec 2002 19:54:50 +0900,
>Shannon Fang wrote:
> > I tried String.methods-Kernel.methods in irb, found that most methods
> > of String are inherited from Kernel. I don't know for methods like
> > sub, gsub, split, strip, chomp... Are they String specific? Why they
> > exist in Kernel?
>
>Note that String.methods returns singleton methods of String.
>
>I imagine what you really want is:
>   String.instance_methods-Kernel.instance_methods
>
>--
>Nobu Nakada


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