Re: what's object_id in irb?

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From	Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject	Re: what's object_id in irb?
Date	Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:35:03 +0100
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On 05.03.2013 17:30, Massimo Donati wrote:
> Hi everyone i'm running this lines of code:
>
> [home/] irb
> 2.0.0p0 :001 > object_id
>   => 70156571578960
>
>
> I can't really understand what is this object_id referred to since is not called from any object?

It is:

irb(main):001:0> object_id
=> -1073529238
irb(main):002:0> self
=> main
irb(main):003:0> self.object_id
=> -1073529238

Note: self - as any variable - _always_ (no exception!) references an 
instance.

Cheers

	robert


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