From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-05-09T07:53:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Singleton class terminology

Hi,

In message "Re: Singleton class terminology"
    on Mon, 9 May 2005 06:12:19 +0900, "David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> writes:

|Matz has also talked about the fact that the singleton class is really
|just one way to implement per-object modification.  He'd mentioned a
|"class-like object" that might not actually be a class.  Some
|questions arose in that context, like:  would there be a class
|interface to it?  what would class << obj; self; end  give you? etc.

You can forget my words.  If I adopt the new model,

  class << obj; self; end

will always give you a "singleton class" (or whatever we name it).

							matz.