Post by @henrik@ruby.social

Might be neat if Ruby had `Self` as sugar for `self.class`, inspired by Swift. Like this:

```
class Object
def self.const_missing(name) = name == :Self ? self : super
end

class Greeter
def greet
puts "My class name is #{Self.name}."
end
end

# Outputs: "My class name is Greeter."
Greeter.new.greet
```

@henrik meh. I can see it, but I think I’m so used to self.class . What is MyClass::Self ?

A modest readability improvement might be easy via:

def my_class = self.class

I don’t know 😅

@soulcutter Just a quick thought after stumbling over Swift’s “Self” vs. “self”. And Ruby’s “self.class” always feels a little awkward to me.

In my PoC implementation, MyClass::Self would be MyClass if no such constant is explicitly defined.

@anilineapps ^ This code gets rendered weird (Mac app). I e.g. see “end class Greeter” as one line but it should be three: “end\n\nclass Greeter”.