From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-23T13:01:26+09:00
Subject: Re: accessors for module instance vars

On Thursday, January 23, 2003, 4:08:49 AM, Mauricio wrote:

> I meant that
> batsman@tux-chan:/tmp$ cat c.rb
> class A; end
> class B < A; end;
> p (B < A)
> p (B.class < A.class)
> batsman@tux-chan:/tmp$ ruby c.rb
> true
> false

> as both are of class Class. If there was an automatic relationship
> between the classes of the classes, my example wouldn't work.


   >> class A; end
   => nil
   >> A < (class << A; self; end)
   => false
   >> A > (class << A; self; end)
   => false
   >> A <=> (class << A; self; end)
   => 1

Can anyone tell me what to make of that?  I thought that the singleton
of a class inherited from the class.  The operation of "super" within
a singleton implies that.

Gavin