From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-05-27T16:01:40+09:00
Subject: Re: How do Class definitions in Ruby differ from other OO languages?

kunjaan wrote:
> What do you mean when you say"Class definitions are executable code".
> How do classes differ from other OO languages?

I like to say it like this:

Ruby doesn't have class declarations. "Declaring" a class is actually 
just constructing a new Class object and running code against it. All 
classes start out blank and must have methods and instance variables 
added to them at runtime.

- Charlie