On: Strangest Language Features

[cobrausn]

Actually, there is, just not as many upvotes as the others.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/2026849

Basically, it is possible to inherit a random class in ruby.

    class RandomSubclass < [Array, Hash, String, Fixnum, Float, TrueClass].sample
       ...
    end

[raganwald → cobrausn]

I wouldn’t call that a strange feature, just a surprising consequence of an un-strange feature, namely that inheritance involves expressions and that classes are first-class entities.

Folks from certain other languages would be just as surprised to find out that you can alias classes by assigning them, return them from functions, and so on.