From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-04-22T09:39:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [EVALUATION] - E03e - The Ruby Object Model (Summary)

Hi,

In message "Re: [EVALUATION] - E03e - The Ruby Object Model (Summary)"
    on Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:32:08 +0900, "David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> writes:

|> I'm not sure why singleton modules are better than singleton classes.
|
|I didn't express that thought very clearly.  I was thinking: modules
|are already a sort of "class-like" (but non-instantiable) object.  But
|it's probably not relevant, since I think what you're talking about is
|implementations that avoid the whole container-creation process.

Yep, singleton class is a long lived object under the current
implementation.  The temporal class-like object can reduce number of
live objects.  Note that I'm not yet sure if it's a good idea or not.
I just don't want to deny the idea before knowing it's bad.

							matz.