From: Avi Bryant <avi@...4.com>
Date: 2001-08-24T12:11:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20242] Re: Inherit singleton method?

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, news.sympatico.qc.ca wrote:

> The problem is that I would have a copy of the value (attributes) as it was
> when 'clone' was invoked.  Instead of having the current state of the object
> duplicated, I would prefer having a new object ('initialize' method invoked,
> ....)

Well, you could always invoke the initialize method explicitly.

I should point out that it is possible to get the true class of a
singleton object - for example,

class << obj
	define_method(:singleton_class) {self}
end

but Ruby won't let you subclass or instantiate it.

What you're trying isn't so strange, by the way.  There's a whole class of
languages (well, a small class of languages) that are "prototype-based" in
this way.  You might want to look at Sun's abandoned Self project, for
example, which is quite cool.

 Avi