From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-11-16T02:24:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel#singleton_class

Hi,

In message "Re: Kernel#singleton_class"
    on Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:38:19 +0900, Florian Gross <flgr@ccan.de> writes:

|But what about this?
|
|irb(main):001:0> class << 1; end
|TypeError: no virtual class for Fixnum

It was an old message reflected the model (once in my brain) in which
"class <<obj; end" actually generated the "virtual class" to hold
singleton methods etc. temporarily, then update the internal singleton
data structure.  I will fix the message.

|Ruby itself isn't consistent in the terminology it uses. Maybe that is 
|the bigger problem.

Indeed.

							matz.