From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2006-06-19T19:31:50+09:00
Subject: Re: About <programming ruby, 2nc edition>, meta class and Cl

unknown wrote:

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

Only classes have metaclasses, but any object can have a singleton 
class.  And although singleton classes of classes are similar to 
metaclasses in some ways, they are not quite the same thing as the 
Smalltalk metaclasses.

-- Jim Weirich

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