From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-04-26T06:28:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14244] Re: RCR: getClassFromString method

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Phil Tomson wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104240801510.847-100000@localhost.localdomain>,
> Stephen White  <spwhite@chariot.net.au> wrote:
> >
> >  if $PLATFORM == "PC"
> >    class Tool < Tool_PC
> >    end
> >  else
> >    class Tool < Tool_UNIX
> >    end
> >  end
> >
> >then you could just use class Tool.
>
> This is kind of an interesting way to do it, too, what would you call it,
> dynamic inheritance?

No more or less dynamic than other inheritance in Ruby :-)  I guess
conditional inheritance.


David

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