From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-12-08T12:36:07+09:00
Subject: Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class

Hi,

In message "Re: injecting dynamic methods into a class"
    on Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:45:18 +0900, 
 "jonathan <zjll9@imail.etsu.edu> <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>

I thought we were talking about so called singleton classes, right?
It's totally different from static classes in C# and C++.
Singleton classes in Ruby are:

  * created run time on demand
  * can be modified (or enhanced) run time
  * their methods may modify any instances
  * their scope are not limited to certain file

							matz.