From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-09-14T19:05:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Singleton method on object via define_method?

Phil Tomson ha scritto:

> I agree.  There are already too many overloaded terms - isn't that why we 
> were trying to get away from using 'singleton' class?
> 
> Now I don't remember, but what was the problem with calling them 
> metaclasses?
> 

metaclass already is used in other contexts in other languages, where it 
stands for the (redefineable) class of a class. In ruby we usually just 
override #new, in other languages they define their own class hierarchy, 
so this has the same problem that virtual.