From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-10-08T01:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Difference between Foo = Class.new and class Foo

Hi,

In message "Re: Difference between Foo = Class.new and class Foo"
    on Wed, 8 Oct 2008 00:32:41 +0900, Brandon Dimcheff <bdimchef@wieldim.com> writes:

|I don't think I'm doing conceptually different things below.  I'm  
|looking at creating and defining classes, not creating objects from  
|those classes.  I'm attempting to create a class called Foo in both  
|cases.  The first time, I use the class keyword.  The second time, I  
|call Class.new.  It seems that using the class keyword doesn't call  
|Class's metaclass's "new" method, while Class.new (obviously) does.

Now I know what you meant.  Literals and expressions do not go through
"new" method as a general rule.

							matz.