From: Brandon Dimcheff <bdimchef@...>
Date: 2008-10-07T23:51:03+09:00
Subject: Difference between Foo = Class.new and class Foo

I'm playing around with classes and discovered that

class Foo
   ...
end

and

Foo = Class.new do
   ...
end

seem to behave slightly differently.  I assumed that "class Foo" was  
just a shortcut that got translated into "Foo = Class.new", but when I  
muck with class in the following way:

class Class
   class << self
     def new
       puts "new called"
       super
     end
   end
end

and then do "Foo = Class.new",  I get "new called" printed to stdout.   
If I do "class Foo..." I get nothing.  So it seems that the "class"  
keyword does not end up calling new on Class when you define a new  
class.  Does anybody know what's going on here?  Is something else  
called instead?

Thanks,
Brandon