From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-07-16T22:40:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17920] Re: Deriving from Class

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> Ah, if I can time to check them.  Or you can remove the following from
> object.c, and play around to see how it goes wrong. ;-)
> 
>   static VALUE
>   rb_class_s_inherited()
>   {
>       rb_raise(rb_eTypeError, "can't make subclass of Class");
>       return Qnil;		/* dummy */
>   }

Perhaps the problem is that the subclass won't behave like a true
Class object, as rb_type() won't return T_CLASS. This means you
wouldn't be able to use this subclass where you could otherwise use a
class.


Dave