From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-08-16T01:53:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Thought question: Where does "new" come from?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:23 AM
Subject: Re: Thought question: Where does "new" come from?


> |How would you explain where "new" comes from
> |in a class?
> 
> From the Class class.
> 
> |This arose because I was trying to draw a picture
> |of Ruby's entire object model.
> 
> Did you check the chart in object.c?

I very rarely look at the source. I was not aware
of the diagram. Thank you.

> And of course, all classes are instances of the Class too.

Why does the diagram show these parenthesized names?
I thought that Class was the only true metaclass in
Ruby. Why then do we show things like (Class) and 
(Object) in the diagram?

Thanks much,
Hal