From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-11-23T01:35:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26157] Re: Passing class names to constructors.

>>>>> "H" == Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:

H> what it buys me is not doing Class.new(Knotclass) where Knotclass is
H> *already* defined.

 Well there is a confusion here.

 Class.new(Knot) create a new class which *inherit* from Knot

pigeon% cat b.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby
class Knot
end

a = Class.new(Knot)
p (a == Knot)
p (a.kind_of? Class)
p a < Knot
pigeon% 

pigeon% b.rb
false
true
true
pigeon% 

Guy Decoux