On 2014-10-28 01:51, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
And I've never seen a language where it did (though one may exist out there
somewhere)
Ruby:
class Foo
end
Foo == Foo.new.class # perfectly legal
You always need to have a receiver when calling the "class" method. This
is not uncommon at all, it's needed (or one way to do it) when accessing
class methods (static methods) from inside of a method
class Bar
def self.foo # class/static method
end
def baz
end
def bar
baz
self.class.bar # need to have an explicit receiver when calling "class"
end
end
In fact, in Ruby you can use any name for a method, but you might not be
able to declare it, or call it :). Instead one can use metaprogramming
and reflection:
class Bar
define_method("foo bar") do # declares the method "foo bar"
puts "calling foo bar"
end
end
Bar.new.send("foo bar") # calls the method "foo bar"
CoffeeScript:
class Foo
bar: ->
console.log "bar"
a = { class: "foo" }
console.log a.class # prints "foo"
--
/Jacob Carlborg
