[ruby-core:31115] Re: Why is the inherited callback invoked at different times for static vs. dynamic subclasses?

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Jacob Lauemler <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Please consider this example:
>
>
> class A
>  def self.inherited(subclass)
>    puts "A was inherited by #{subclass}"
>  end
> end
>
> class B < A
>  puts "Definition of #{self}"
> end
>
> C = Class.new(A) do
>  puts "Definition of #{self}"
> end
>
>
> When run, the output is
>
> A was inherited by B
> Definition of B
> Definition of #<Class:0x100124e80>
> A was inherited by #<Class:0x100124e80>
>
> So, the inherited callback was called *before* the class body in the
> "static" subclass B, but *after* the code in the block passed to Class.new
> for the dynamic subclass C. Is this a bug?
>
> My question is: why is this so? Shouldn't the two ways of creating
> subclasses be equivalent?
>

This behavior is also unexpected to me. Perhaps it's a bug? If not, is there
a reason for these semantics?