From: Dirk Meijer <hawkman.gelooft@...>
Date: 2005-12-20T05:24:18+09:00
Subject: Re: shortcut to self.class ?

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never really thought about this, but this might be a useful method:

def new
  self.class.new
end

what are your thoughts?
greetings, Dirk.


2005/12/19, Mark J. Reed <mreed@thereeds.org>:
>
> 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?
>
>

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