From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-01-23T11:39:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Class.new and inspect

Hi,

In message "Class.new and inspect"
    on 04/01/23, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

|Perhaps even more perplexing:
|
|   irb(main):007:0> A = B = C = Class.new(Hash)
|   => B
|   irb(main):008:0> x = C.new
|   => {}
|   irb(main):009:0> x.class
|   => B
|
|What? Not A or C, the first or last, but B?

When inspecting unnamed class, Ruby look around the constants for the
name of the class, B this case is found first.

							matz.