From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2005-12-19T12:43:34+09:00
Subject: Re: shortcut to self.class ?

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Mark J.Reed wrote:

> Without writing my own alias, is there an easy way to get the class of
> the current object without calling self.class?  I'm trying to call class
> methods from within an instance method, and self.class.method_name is
> just a little verbose for my taste.  I could do type.method_name, but
> that's deprecated and not very clear.  It would be nice if just class
> by itself were understood in context as the method instead of the keyword,
> but since it's not, I'm sort of stuck.  Suggestions?

   class Object
     def klass
       self.class
     end
   end

often i simply put this in specific classes.  i also put this one in alot

   class Object
     def singleton_class
       class << self; self; end
     end
   end

it defintely best if you can keep this in your own code - but sometimes
putting global like this makes sense.

regards.

-a
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