From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-04-22T04:09:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Article: Seeing Metaclasses Clearly

Ryan Leavengood <mrcode@netrox.net> wrote:
> Trans wrote:
> >
> > I had been holding on to the term "special class", but I suppose that
> > makes it sound like it has "special" needs :-) Perhaps we should try a
> > differnt tact, like "root class" or "direct class".
> 
> What about "shadow class"? Because it is like it is there, but not really.

I like 'shadow class', since you can think of it as shadowing the #class
class. 'Eigenclass' was nice too, since 'eigen' has a long and
honourable tradition of being borrowed into English words.

martin