From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-07-20T09:51:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language?

Adam P. Jenkins wrote:
> 
> Yes you are being pedantic.  In Java classes certainly are objects, it's 
> just that the syntax for getting at the class object is a little 
> different from Ruby:
> 
> In Java:
> 
> class Foo {}  // define a class
> Class clazz = Foo.class;  // assign class to a variable

If Foo is a class, what is Foo.class?

> Foo foo = new Foo();  // create an instance
> clazz = foo.getClass();  // get instance's class object

Can you say this?

   bar = new clazz();

And does getClass return you Foo or Foo.class?


Cheers,
Hal