ruby - What is "Class.new"? -

i don't understand sheep = class.new part in following piece of code.

module fence    sheep = class.new     def speak       "bah."     end   end end  def call_sheep   fence::sheep.new.speak end 

what doing?

according documentation, class.new

creates new anonymous (unnamed) class given superclass (or object if no parameter given).

furthermore,

you can give class name assigning class object constant.

sheep constant, code equivalent to:

module fence    class sheep     def speak       "bah."     end   end end