From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-17T23:15:02+09:00
Subject: Re: reliable way of finding Objects Class?

Hi,

In message "reliable way of finding Objects Class?"
    on 03/07/17, walter@mwsewall.com <walter@mwsewall.com> writes:
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|is there a reliable way to find the Object's Class.  I know about 
|class and type, but what happens if they are overridden?

This is not perfect but working way:

  c = Object.instance_method(:class)
  class Foo
    def class
      nil
    end
  end
  f = Foo.new
  p f.class             # => nil
  p c.bind(f).call      # => Foo
							matz.