Answer by Cameron Pope for In Ruby what does the "receiver" refer to?
In Ruby (and other languages that take inspiration from SmallTalk) objects are thought of as sending and receiving 'messages'.In Ruby, Object, the base class of everything, has a send method:...
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In the original Smalltalk terminology, methods on "objects" were instead refered to as messages to objects (i.e. you didn't call a method on object foo, you sent object foo a message). So foo.blah is...
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the object before the .think of calling a method x.y as saying "send instruction y to object x".it's the smalltalk way of thinking, it will serve you well as you get to some of Ruby's more advanced...
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I'm reading a document that talks about a method having a receiver. What's a receiver?
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