From: Justin Bailey <jgbailey@...>
Date: 2006-12-20T05:46:39+09:00
Subject: Re: what exactly does obj.is_a? do?

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On 12/19/06, Jon Garvin <jgarvin.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> To clarify, I'm interested in *how*, not *if*,  is_a? determines whether
> @my_obj.is_a?(Klass) with no concern for superclasses or modules.  I'm
> fairly confident it's going to take somebody familiar with Ruby's source
> code, not just the API, to answer this one.
>
>
Check out the English translation of portions of the Ruby Hacking Guide. I'm
not sure where you can get a direct answer to your question, but you can
find out how some of those internals are constructed:

http://rhg.rubyforge.org/

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