From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-01-14T08:12:44+09:00
Subject: Re: subclasses

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Daniel Bretoi wrote:

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> 1. What if I want to do something like File.stat("filename").age.days ?
> class File
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> 2. Is there a more elegant (different anway) way of defening my age
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class Stat
  def age
    Time.now - mtime
  end
end

does both i think.


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> 3. More in general.. how does the notation File::Stat actually work? The
> Class is File::Stat, yet I access Stat with lowercase letters.
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File::Stat -> inner class
File.stat  -> method which just happens to return a File::Stat object

-a

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