From: transfire@...
Date: 2006-06-19T12:13:18+09:00
Subject: Re: About <programming ruby, 2nc edition>, meta class and Cl

Maybe this helps:

    /*
     * Ruby's Class Hierarchy Chart
     *
     *                           +------------------+
     *                           |                  |
     *             Object---->(Object)              |
     *              ^  ^        ^  ^                |
     *              |  |        |  |                |
     *              |  |  +-----+  +---------+      |
     *              |  |  |                  |      |
     *              |  +-----------+         |      |
     *              |     |        |         |      |
     *       +------+     |     Module--->(Module)  |
     *       |            |        ^         ^      |
     *  OtherClass-->(OtherClass)  |         |      |
     *                             |         |      |
     *                           Class---->(Class)  |
     *                             ^                |
     *                             |                |
     *                             +----------------+
     *
     *   + All metaclasses are instances of the class `Class'.
     */

T.

P.S. Recently noticed Smalltalk uses the term metaclass. I wonder why
singleton took it's place?