From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-05-05T03:37:42+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Object#inside_metaclass?


Christoph said:
> Jim Weirich schrieb:
>
>>
>>(1) The statement "all singleton classes descend from the singleton class
>>of Object" is false.
>>
>>(2) The statement "all metaclasses descend from the metaclass of Object"
>>is true
>>
>>
> Nope - the singleton class of Module is not  a meta_class  but it
> descends from the
> singleton class of Object.

Module is a class (instances of Module are modules).  The singleton class
of module would be a metaclass[1] (a class of a class ... since Module is
a class).

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[1] or quasi-proto-faux-metaclass if you prefer.