From: Dave Aronson <rubytalk2dave@...>
Date: 2012-01-26T03:43:59+09:00
Subject: Re: A little assistance please :)

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 23:32, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:

> Because self already has meaning in Ruby, when you try to define a class
> like this:
>
>    class self.Startup
>
> . . . Ruby is trying to call a Startup method on the Object object (no,
> that repetition wasn't accidental -- there's an object called Object) and
> use the return value of that method as the name of the class you're
> trying to define.

So if I had a class with a method that returned a string, I could use
that where the name is expected in a class declaration?  That doesn't
seem right.  Tried it in irb, using both a class method (Foo.bar) and
an instance method (foo.bar), and neither worked.

-Dave

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