From: jos@... (Jos Backus)
Date: 2002-06-08T08:36:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Returning an instance from a different class from new

In article <20020607005906.GA6618@digikata.com>,
Alan Chen  <alan@digikata.com> wrote:
>> module FooFactory
>>   def build(sel, field)

>BTW, if you change the signature of build to
>
>  def self.build(sel,field)
>
>you can eliminate the need to do the "include FooFactory"

Yes, that works, but why? self.type prints as "Module".

Thanks,
Jos
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