From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-04-06T08:32:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [curiousity] why aren't declarations just syntactic sugar?

From: "Lionel Thiry" <lthiryidontwantspam@skynetnospam.be>
>
> I'd like to know why in ruby, a construction like:
>   class MyClass
>    ...
>   end
> 
> isn't just a syntactic sugar for:
>   MyClass = Class.new do
>    ...
>   end

It'd probably at least have to be:

  (MyClass ||= Class.new) do

so we can re-open classes as we currently do.

Other than that... I dunno... :)


Regards,

Bill