From: Florian Frank <flori@...>
Date: 2002-12-01T09:10:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Scalars

On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 00:28, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> > Apart from syntax, there's nothing special about Array or Hash objects in
> > Ruby, so there's no special word for them.
> Yes there is.  You just called them "array" and "hash".  How do you call
> something that is neither?

Ruby's objects usually know how they liked to be called. If you have a
variable "ref" that holds a reference to an object call "ref.class.name"
and it will tell you its name.