From: Thomas E Enebo <enebo@...>
Date: 2005-09-12T00:19:57+09:00
Subject: Class.new and extending it...

  I am trying to do something like the following code sample:

class Base
  class << self
    attr :my_name, true
  end

  def show_name
    self.class.my_name
  end
end

class Maker
  def Maker.create_class(class_name)
    Class.new(Base) { self.my_name = class_name }
  end
end

HEH = Maker.create_class("HEH")

heh_instance = HEH.new
p heh_instance.kind_of?(Base)
p heh_instance.show_name

class ExtendedHEH < HEH
end

p ExtendedHEH.new.show_name

  I want the last 'p' to print out "HEH".  I understand why Base.show_name
is not working for the extended class (self resolves to itself, which will grab the extended class 'ExtendedHEH')...  but I do not understand how I can access 
the singleton class to get at "HEH".   Any thoughts? 

-Tom

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