From: Ronald Fischer <rofi@...>
Date: 2008-01-25T16:54:18+09:00
Subject: Re: "Parametric class" on inheritance

James Gray wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote:
> 
>> How does it work out that DelegateClass(Fixnum) evaluates
>> to something of type "Class"?
> 
> It is a method call actually.  You are allowed to create method that
> begin with a capital letter, though it's best only used for special
> cases like this.  Usually a capitalized method does some kind of
> conversion, like what we see here or Kernel#Array, Kernel#String, etc.

Thanks a lot (also to Brian) for the helpful explanation!

Ronald

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.