From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-03-02T17:02:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Module question


On Mar 1, 2011, at 23:46 , JP Billaud wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I have been looking around about Module etc... and all I can read is
> that Module cannot be instantiated. However the following code works
> just fine with Ruby 1.8.7:
> 
> ==
> mod = Module.new
> ==
> 
> Am I missing something obvious?

Kinda...

>> class X; end
=> nil
>> X.new
=> #<X:0x10038cb78>
>> Y = Class.new
=> Y
>> Y.new
=> #<Y:0x100359c28>
>> Class.new
=> #<Class:0x100388b90>
>> Class.new.new
=> #<#<Class:0x100365028>:0x100364f10>

vs:

>> Z = Module.new
=> Z
>> Module.new
=> #<Module:0x100380e90>
>> Z.new
NoMethodError: undefined method `new' for Z:Module
	from (irb):11
>> Module.new.new
NoMethodError: undefined method `new' for #<Module:0x10036f848>
	from (irb):6