From: Charles Thornton <ceo@...>
Date: 2006-11-28T05:36:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-6820 ] #ancestors never includes the singleton class (inconsistent)

Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
>> It is supposed to.  Singleton classes (or eigenclasses, if you want to
>> call them) are not real classes, they are placeholders for per object
>> attributes, so that they are not covered by #ancestors.
>>
>> 							matz.
>>     
> And, out of curiosity, why do you want that ? The singleton classes look 
> like the "class of a single object" in (almost) every way. In 1.9 you 
> event made it inherit the "real" class of the object. So, why keeping this 
> kind of reminder that we can't manipulate singleton classes like any other 
> class ?
>
> (btw, I'm posting that because I had to implement my own ancestors-like 
> method ...)
>   
So dit I (my_ancestors) for various purposes ;-)  cet