From: Akinori MUSHA <knu@...>
Date: 2002-10-20T23:01:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Is subclass known in superclass.initialize? (virtual constructor theme...)

At Sun, 20 Oct 2002 11:07:51 +0900,
Dave Thomas wrote:
> 'type' returns the class of its receiver, so:
(snip)
> So can also use #class, but you have to be careful to call it with an
> explicit receiver, or Ruby will think you're starting a class
> definition.

Object#type is being deprecated in the development version (though I
don't know why), so I'd recommend "self.class".

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