Note, also, that if you don't wrap it in 'class Foo; end', you don't have access to the class @@variables of Foo.
Devin
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Jacob Fugal wrote:
> On 7/4/05, Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:
>> class Foo
>> def Foo.bar1() "bar1" end
>>
> Note that the last form (class << Foo) doesn't need to be inside the
> reopened class:
>
> $ cat > a.rb
> class Foo; end
>
> class << Foo
> def test
> puts "Hello, world!"
> end
> end
>
> Foo.test
>
> $ ruby a.rb
> Hello, world!The same is true for variant 1 also. I prefer the nested versions with
"self" because they are immune to name changes of the class.