From: "zimba.tm@..." <zimba.tm@...>
Date: 2005-08-17T17:21:17+09:00
Subject: Prototype-based / Ruby question

I just stumbled across this page[1] on RubyGarden. The writer tells
that prototye-languages languages are great and that Ruby is not part
of them.

As I understand the definition, prototype based languages don't
instanciate objects from a class, but rather clone an existing model
object. Ruby's classes are objects.

So which is first, the Class or the Object ?

It makes me think of a french sentence which says : From the chicken
and the Egg, which was first ? (disregarding the theory of evolution)

Cheers,
.... zimba


[1] http://rubygarden.org/ruby/ruby?action=browse&id=PrototypeBasedRuby