From: Dave Burt <burtdav@...>
Date: 2004-06-22T18:23:13+09:00
Subject: Re: A question about Class and Object

> For those who have same problems as mine, read the following link.
> http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/251/96/ChrisPine_UROM.ppt
> It's great.

I found so, too -- thanks Chris.

Even though it's a simple and intuitive distinction once you get it, this
distinction at issue (superclass vs. class) can be inexplicably confusing.

But then everything becomes simple when you understand Ruby's consistent
object model; an object's class and that class' inheritance do define the
object -- just don't fall into the trap of assuming that an object's class
defines it completely (singleton class methods like Module.nesting being
possibly the most common example of this in the standard library).