From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-08-26T02:58:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling method from another class

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:53 PM, David Masover<ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 August 2009 09:43:29 am Nilesh Trivedi wrote:
>
>> I have a related question. "Class" is a subclass of "Module". Then why
>> is it that I can include a Module but not another Class?
>
> You can include a module because you can include exactly modules, and nothing
> else -- just as you can inherit from exactly classes, and nothing else.
>
> I don't really know why Class is a subclass of Module. I'm guessing there is
> some code shared between them, or maybe it makes other things easier to
> understand.

Class inherits the behavior to act as a namespace, and the ability to
hold instance methods from Module.

Classes can instantiate instances, Modules cannot.

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