From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2006-08-13T01:30:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Defining Eigenclass Hal Fulton writes: > 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. We could add some magic that every method matching /_class/ returns the singleton class... :-) foo.eigen_class foo.singleton_class foo.ueber_class > Hal -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org