From: Csaba Henk <csaba@..._for_avoiding_spam.org>
Date: 2005-04-08T23:54:42+09:00
Subject: Re: [EVALUATION] - E03b - The Ruby Object Model

On 2005-04-05, Lionel Thiry <lthiryidontwantspam@skynetnospam.be> wrote:
> Most of the time, everything goes in ruby as if there weren't any kind of 
> metaclasses. For exemple, you cannot explicitely create your own metaclasses:
>
> class MyMetaClass < Class
> end
>
> It raises the exception:
> metaclass.rb:1: can't make subclass of Class (TypeError)

Hmm, the rigor of the interpreter here is somewhat loose. You can
subclass Class, just not as you tried.

MyMetaClass = Class.new Class
MyMetaClass.ancestors
 # => [MyMetaClass, Class, Module, Object, Kernel]

This works just fine. However, it's not too consistent altogether...

Csaba