From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-06-23T20:30:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Class#name=


In message "Re: Class#name="
    on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:06:31 +0900, "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@gmail.com> writes:

|We have an object x, ok we create it now :)
|    x= mod.new
|oh it has a name method, let us see
|    x.name  => ""
|great, that is a good name.
|BTW I need a constant reference to that object
|    A = x
|A.name will be "" of course I just assigned another reference to the object,
|I am a clever guy, I know that pointing another reference to an object can
|not possibly change the
|behavior (please let us be precise here, behavior not sate, state is
|internal, behavior is
|what counts to the programmer)
|    A.name == x.name => true
|As I told you, I am sooo great
|    A.name => "A"
|What??? You must be kidding no way.

Ruby looks for the name through class hierarchy, when it's asked a
name for the class/module that has not been named yet.

							matz.