From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-01-17T09:16:39+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby docs (and weird error)

Hi,

In message "Re: ruby docs (and weird error)"
    on 02/01/17, Brett McCormick <brettmcc@amazon.com> writes:

|For example, the following code:
|
|a = 1;
|class <<a
|  def +@(b)  
|    puts "test"
|  end
|end
|puts(a.+(2))
|
|yeilds this error
|
|-:2: no virtual class for Fixnum (TypeError)
|
|any ideas why?

Because there's "no virtual class for Fixnums". ;-)

"virtual class" means what you define by "class <<a" syntax.

							matz.