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Feature #7876

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Add method for accessing Class from within Singleton Class

Added by wardrop (Tom Wardrop) about 11 years ago. Updated about 6 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:52436]

Description

=begin
I'm quite surprised I haven't run into this sooner, but I seem to have just discovered that there's no means by which you can access the outer Class object once inside the context of the Singleton Class. Take the following example; how would I get a reference to (({Test})) from within the singleton?

class Test
class << self
# How do I get a reference to Test from here?
end
end

I assume the answer is that there is no reliable way, hence the reason for this request. Could we add a method to the singleton class that allows access to the "outer" class, e.g.

class Test
class << self
self.outerclass
end
end

Thoughts?
=end

Updated by ko1 (Koichi Sasada) about 11 years ago

  • Category set to core
  • Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
  • Target version set to 2.6

Updated by duerst (Martin Dürst) about 11 years ago

This should be possible with Module#ancestors. Maybe not totally slick, but possible.

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Updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE) about 6 years ago

  • Target version deleted (2.6)
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