Feature #1431: Object#__class__

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
• Target version: 2.0.0

[svoop (Sven Schwyn)]

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Consider the following code using class instance variables:

class Car
def self.total_count=(n)
@total_count = n
end

def initialize
self.class.total_count = 0
end
end

The compile requires "self.class.total_count" as the more readable "class.total_count" is mistaken by the parser as a faulty class definition.

How about adding a class method to Object?

class Object
def class
self.class
end
end

It would allow the use of "class" as a de facto prefix for class instance variables and would fit e.g. the id/id and send/send paradigm.
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[yugui (Yuki Sonoda)]

• Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
• Priority changed from Normal to 3
• Target version set to 2.0.0

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[marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)]

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-1 because:

a) class is more keystrokes (if you count the shift key)
b) self.class is clear (and exists currently)
c) I feel that something should ideally be reserved for special cases; self.class isn't. I am aware that FILE was used a lot before and there's talk about dir, but I think that require_relative is now a better solution for most of these cases.
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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

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