From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-08-16T02:38:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Thought question: Where does "new" come from?

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From: "ts" <decoux@moulon.inra.fr>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
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Subject: Re: Thought question: Where does "new" come from?


> >>>>> "H" == Hal E Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:
> 
> H> Why does the diagram show these parenthesized names?
> H> I thought that Class was the only true metaclass in
> H> Ruby. Why then do we show things like (Class) and 
> H> (Object) in the diagram?
> 
>  (Class)  is the singleton class associated with Class
>  (Object) is the singleton class associated with Object

Oh, yes, of course. Where the singleton information
goes.

I am still unclear why these are conceptually
necessary.

If I do a "def Object.foo" why does it have to go into
(Object) as opposed to just Object?

Hal