From: Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@...>
Date: 2005-04-21T17:26:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Article: Seeing Metaclasses Clearly

Maybe we should change the subject of this thread?

Since there is no such thing as metaclasses in ruby ;-)

<quote>
|I've been trying to understand metaclasses

You don't have to, because there's no such a thing in Ruby.
In Smalltalk, a metaclass is a class of a class.

In Ruby, the Class class is the class of all classes, no metaclass.
But every object (of course including classes) can have hidden
meta-object (the place holder for singleton methods), which is only
revealed by the "singleton class notation".
</quote>

from http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/40537