From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-01-12T01:20:04+09:00
Subject: Re: class name reported differently in different contexts

>>>>> "C" == Chr Rippel <chr_news@gmx.net> writes:

C> From the point of view of someone who is pretty much clueless about
C> the inner workings of the interpreter it seems that classid and classpath
C> are normally hidden variables used in computing the value of Class#to_s
C> Class#inspect (short of overriding the ladder two methods) computed at
C> most once during the lifetime of a class. Normally this happens when
C> the interpreter for the first time sees the lines

 yes,

C> The previous half-baked solution of setting classid but not classpath
C> seems like the worst of all possible choices to me.

 The previous half-baked solution is based on the fact that an user class
 exist when it's defined as a constant. Before this the class has only a
 classid (I don't want to speak about "native" classes of ruby :-)))

 Don't forget : if I've a classpath, I can retrieve the constant actually.
 If I have only a classid, I can't retrieve the constant.

 With this patch, classid is useless and even for "native" classes it can
 exist only classpath.


Guy Decoux