From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-09-14T19:43:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Singleton method on object via define_method?

Hi --

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 05:34:54PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
> > .... but it might be a good reason to call it "virtual": it simply doesn't
> > exist the whole time. :-)  OTOH, you can't tell from the outside - it's
> > there when you need it - lazyly initialized...  ("lazy_class"? Oh no...)
> 
> There's at least one case where you can know if the singleton class has
> been created or not (singletons of singletons). 

Can you elaborate and/or give an example of what you mean?

> And you can always know if you're using evil.rb, of course :-)

Still holding out for a name change :-)


David

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David A. Black
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