From: Ben Tompkins <nbitspoken@...>
Date: 2007-09-01T10:14:55+09:00
Subject: correction: typo in subject

Oops,

Subject should read "... class >> self ..."

(Ok, maybe I am dyslexic -- but I'm still right -- just takes me a 
couple
of tries to get the sequencing right.) :)

Ben Tompkins wrote:

> The semantics of
> 
> class X
> 
> ...
> 
> class << self // I think it should be class >> self.
>   def instance_method_for_class_object_named_X
>     ...
>   end
> end
> 
> end
> 
> is that an instance method is added (appended) to the current object X
> == self by
> the class definition that encloses the new method. Because we are
> appending a new method to self, the arrows should point towards "self"
> not "class."
> 
> nbits

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