From: Thiago Arrais <thiago.arrais@...>
Date: 2006-04-03T23:55:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamic code generation

On 4/2/06, Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
> This seems like a job for class constants:

This is what it seemed at first to me too. But I would like the
instances to respond to a method, not the classes.

The expected behavior is like this

$ tail identifiers.rb

# calling the identifier method on the instances, not the classes
puts A.new.name
puts B.new.name
puts C.new.name
puts A.new.name

$ ruby identifiers.rb
Class A
Class A
Class C
Class A

I wouldn't like to override a method just for returning a different
ID. I have solved the problem with the approach described on the
previous message. The question is: is there a simpler way? Maybe using
class constants?

Cheers,

Thiago Arrais