From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-10-04T15:40:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Confusion on Keywords

From: "Christoph" <chr_news@gmx.net>

>
> (not that I really care;-)  but I am wondering what the
> improvement of ```class'' over ``type'' is supposed to be?
>
> /Christoph

:class is more descriptive of the result of the method.  It is the received
Ruby wisdom that classes and types are not the same thing.  What a 'type' is,
nobody really knows, but it probably can't be returned from a method call!

Gavin