From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2005-12-20T04:17:47+09:00
Subject: Re: shortcut to self.class ?

gabriele renzi wrote:
> 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

Probably. I'm getting a bit fed up with the current parser, it seems to 
kill off a lot of good ideas. What's the status on that new ANTLR grammar?


Cheers,
Daniel