From: "jonathan <zjll9@...> <zjll9@...>" <zjll9@...>
Date: 2005-12-08T11:45:18+09:00
Subject: Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class

matz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class"
>     on Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:22:02 +0900, "jonathan <zjll9@imail.etsu.edu>" 
> <zjll9@imail.etsu.edu> writes:
> 
> |How do you all think the term 'static class' fits?
> 
> Nope, just because it's not static at all.
> 

It seems to be a term that .NET (and I think C++) uses:

see <a 
href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/79b3xss3.aspx">http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/79b3xss3.aspx</a>

In what way would the class not be static in Ruby?  In the sense that 
you can still metaprogram (or is it more than that)?

I think the term static refers to the fact that the data is static (that 
is, there isn't a new copy of the data members for each instance) and 
that each method is static (doesn't change any data members).  One could 
argue that adding code to a class is dynamic, but it could be understood 
that the term 'static' only refers to data.

I guess the term is not a *perfect* match.  But, then again, none of the 
ones suggested, except maybe 'eigenclass' is.

--Jonathan

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