From: mark sparshatt <msparshatt@...>
Date: 2005-05-01T18:35:20+09:00
Subject: Re: arg, metaclass bug found?

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
> <nobu.nokada@softhome.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
> news:200504300320.j3U3KaYY017937@sharui.nakada.niregi.kanuma.tochigi.jp...
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> At Sat, 30 Apr 2005 11:29:27 +0900,
>> Lionel Thiry wrote in [ruby-talk:140557]:
>>
>>> Test2 < Test1 # => true
>>>
>>> # the bug is here
>>> Test2.meta < Test1.meta # => nil
>>> # it should have benn true instead of nil
>>
>>
>> true is returned in 1.9.
> 
> 
> Hm, why is that?  What do the singleton classes of Test2 and Test1 have 
> in common?  This surprises me...
> 

According to the Pickaxe if Test2 is a subclass of Test1 then Test2.meta 
should be a subclass of Test1.meta

Entering

Test2.meta.superclass #=> #<Class:Test1>

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Mark Sparshatt