From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-05-10T13:59:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Singleton class terminology

Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> 
> But in that sense, a "singleton class" is not a class at all.
> It is just a "place" where we store information on unique methods
> and attributes and such. A class also has a "place" associated
> with it -- whether you think of it as a place in memory, or in
> the interpreter's code, or in the programmer's brain.

But in Ruby, a class is pretty much a place where method lookup is done,
is it not? Hence the whole class/type debate.

martin