From: Matthew Moss <matthew.moss.coder@...>
Date: 2006-01-26T05:15:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Metaclass confusion

Heh heh, shouldn't that first line be:

Song = Object.clone

?

On 1/25/06, Jules Jacobs <julesjacobs@gmail.com> wrote:
> A non-circular model would be prototype based inheritance. You just
> clone things to subclass them:
>
> Song = Object.new
>
> Song.attr_writer :title
> Song.title = 'No title set'
>
> Song.define_method :play
>   puts "Playing #{@title}"
> end
>
> a_song = Song.clone
> a_song.title = 'Song one'
> a_song.play
>
> another_song = Song.clone
> another_song.title = 'Song two'
>
> subclass_of_a_song = a_song.clone
> subclass_of_a_song.play
>
> Then there is no distinction between class/object. This is how
> Javascript does it, and it seems a good solution.
>
> But we have a class based model, not so clean, but acceptable ;-)
>
> Jules
>
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