From: Michael Edgar <adgar@...>
Date: 2011-03-07T07:26:45+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get class of BasicObject ancestor (Ruby 1.9.2)?

BasicObject as a singleton already has the class method (and it returns Class, as expected).
You meant to suggest something like this:

class BasicObject
  def class
    BasicObject
  end
end

But that would make any subclass of BasicObject that doesn't override this #class definition
would return BasicObject, which would be odd. I'm not sure of a pure-ruby way to write #class,
it's definitely written in C for the Object class.

Michael Edgar
adgar@carboni.ca
http://carboni.ca/

On Mar 6, 2011, at 4:21 PM, 7stud -- wrote:

> ...or even simpler: just open up BasicObject and monkeypatch a class 
> method called class(untested):
> 
> class BasicObject
>  def self.class
>    self
>  end
> end
> 
> Then have at it.
> 
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