From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2008-02-15T09:20:01+09:00
Subject: Re: object specific methods and id

On Feb 14, 5:08 pm, 7stud -- <bbxx789_0...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> According to pickaxe2, that is correct.  However, the anonymous class is
> called an 'anonymous' for a reason: it has no name.  So, what would
> obj.class return if that were to retrieve the name of the anonymous
> class?

It would return what it does:
irb(main):001:0> class << "foo"; self; end
=> #<Class:#<String:0x2b82264>>

The reason .class doesn't return the eigenclass has nothing to do with
it being 'hard' to represent. It's because it's still not the class of
the object. It's not a module, either, though it also behaves like
one. It is its own thing.