From: Christoph <chr_mail@...>
Date: 2005-04-25T05:46:08+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Article: Seeing Metaclasses Clearly

David A. Black schrieb:

> I know there's this perhaps odd circularity, and singularity, at the
> top of the model. But does it really need to be resolved? I've
> always felt comfortable living with this as the price of bootstrapping
> the rest of the model.

One way or another you need to sort of bootstrap any (alternative) object
model too. I also tend to agree that the case for resolving anything is not
all that strong, especially since I kind of like unresolved 
singularities:-) and
since they are probably unavoidable anyway (sort of like the singularity
marking the "beginning" of the time-space continuum).
My point (and Mathieu�s I believe) was that the validity of the average Ruby
script or even library would not be affected by some, even radical, 
changes on the
top of the object model. Matz in fact changed the "method lookup path" of
�singleton classes" and especially "singleton singleton class" in the 
past and I'll
bet hardly anybody noticed it.

/Christoph