From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-07-20T16:30:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language?

Hal Fulton ha scritto:
> 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?

the way you rreference the Foo class.
think of it as a literal.
I should be also noticed that this way you can reference even the types 
of non-classes (you can do MyInterface.class int.class, void.class etc)

>> 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?

you can do
Foo foo = clazz.getInstance() ;