From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-12-20T04:02:47+09:00
Subject: Re: shortcut to self.class ?

Daniel Schierbeck ha scritto:
> 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?
> 
> 
> I think it's a good idea to allow `class' to be called from within 
> methods if there's a dot after it
> 
>   class.some_method  # legal
>   class              # illegal, or rather, creates a new class

+1, but I wonder if this may be a limitation of the parser