From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-01-30T04:50:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Type Inference

>> Class.type is deprecated in favour of Class.class

> Right. Typo on my part. But why is it deprecated?

Object#type (which I'm sure is what you meant) is deprecated in favour of 
synonym #class because it doesn't return the object's type, it only returns 
its class.

Cheers,
Dave