From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-29T16:42:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15911] Re: How to enumerate known subclasses?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:15887] How to enumerate known subclasses?"
    on 01/05/29, Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de> writes:

|It might be possible to enumerate all objects and look for class
|objects whose superclass is X, but that seems to be very inefficient.
|
|I'd prefer if there'd be a more direct approach to this problem.

How about making a class/module relation table at first by enumerating
all classes/modules, then keeping the table up-to-date by hooking
"inherited" and "append_features" (or "included" in 1.7)?
Just an idea.

							matz.