From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2005-05-17T08:00:30+09:00
Subject: Re: infinite number of singleton_classes

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Lionel Thiry wrote:

> http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/140562

yes i saw that.

> If you really want ruby2 works the way you described it, I advice you to
> urgently post an RCR for it.

no.  the new behaviour is fine - i was simply describing how it is now and how
that relates to the 'infinite levels' issue in that i think it's  strange -
but consistent.  believe me - you've no idea how much easier my trait lib
would have been to write if

   child.singleton_class < parent.singleton_class

as it were i had to do this

   class << self
     # determine our 'singleton_super' so we can use it's ancestors
   end

and this is precisely because parent/child meta classes do not fit into the
same kind of hierarchy as their respective classes.  so i will love the new
behaviour.

i'm going to quit on this now because i feel like i've only confused things.
sorry if i have.

cheers.

-a
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