From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-08-17T00:57:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Thought question: Where does "new" come from?


"Christoph" <chr_news@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:ajj3ro$c72$00$1@news.t-online.com...

> What about anonymous classes ?  They sort of
> make your argument mood IMHO.

Ruby is very dynamically type so you can only stretch the analogy so far.


> class << anon
>     def my_name
>         puts @my_name
>     end
> end

What you do in the above is to access the Singleton class of the
instantiated object, which is different.

>
> anon.new.inst_meth # an_inst
> anon.my_name        # anon

> A.const                    # anon's_const

This is the static class, but it is just the same as before. After all you
did earlier declare

> class A; end

The need to do this actually stresses the point that it has a static nature.

Mikkel