From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2005-01-28T19:46:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Duping a class causes error

Robert Klemme schrieb:
> "Pit Capitain" <pit@capitain.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:41F9E97C.2030006@capitain.de...
> 
>>Trans schrieb:
>>
>>>(...) though I would like to figure
>>>out how to copy classes and give them a name, instead of them
>>>appearing as numbers on #inspect.
>>>
...
>> 
>>   c = String.dup
>>
>>   def c.to_s
>>     "MySpecialString"
>>   end
>>
...
 >
> I guess that's not the same as there is some magic involved with class
> names:
> 
...

Hi Robert,

I thought Tom was talking about the textual representation of his class copies 
when calling inspect on them. My simple code was an answer to this problem.

I didn't talk about the name of a class object as returned by the name method. 
IIRC it has been mentioned at least once on this mailing list that the name of a 
class object is the name of the first constant this class object is assigned to, 
as your code shows.

Regards,
Pit