From: Benoit Cerrina <benoit.cerrina@...>
Date: 2001-10-01T11:28:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21851] Re: Ruby internal (guide to the source)

Hi,
I read both and they were very interesting, however I'm not interested in
just writing
an extension but on understanding the whole thing (actually I'm trying to
understand
and help with jRuby and for that I'd like to understand C ruby).
The part I'm not sure to understand to well is the relationship between a
class and
its metaclass and why is the metaclass needed at all.  Do you have any
document
I could read on this concept?
Benoit
"Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote in message
news:1001664453.740916.25370.nullmailer@ev.netlab.jp...
> Hi,
>
> In message "[ruby-talk:21798] Ruby internal (guide to the source)"
>     on 01/09/28, "Benoit Cerrina" <benoit.cerrina@writeme.com> writes:
>
> |is there some documentation about the way the ruby source is structures
and
> |how it works?
> |Where should I start to look first to understand it and such?
>
> README.EXT explains about the internal and source structure.
> Chapter 17 of "Programming Ruby" will help you too.
>
> matz.
>
>