From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-08-12T08:19:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Defining Eigenclass

Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:44:40AM +0900, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> 
>>The history of it, as I recall it, is that Matz doesn't want to
>>implement RCR 231 (http://www.rcrchive.net/rcr/show/231), unless and
>>until he comes up with what he considers the perfect name.  Then
>>there's the "What does Matz have to do with it?", fait-accompli
>>campaign for eigenclass :-)  And various other branchings off,
>>generalizations of "metaclass", and so on -- so that, unfortunately,
>>the singleton class is now most commonly known as something like:
>>
>>  this thing that doesn't really have a name and is known sometimes as
>>  singleton class, but also as eigenclass, or metaclass, or
>>  something-else-class -- and it's really, really confusing and
>>  hard to understand....
> 
> 
> Works for me.  Let's call it that.


Great! But put underscores in there for the RCR.

Hal