From: Lyle Johnson <ljohnson@...>
Date: 2001-10-01T23:49:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21866] Re: Ruby internal (guide to the source)

> The part I'm not sure to understand to well is the relationship between a
> class and
> its metaclass and why is the metaclass needed at all.  Do you have any
> document
> I could read on this concept?

In addition to the information already provided by Matz and Guy in their
responses, you might take a look at the "Classes and Objects" chapter in
"Programming Ruby" (Chapter 19 maybe?) This chapter doesn't specifically try
to dissect the C code that implements Ruby's classes and objects but it does
explain how they work together (e.g. how singleton methods are implemented,
etc.) and might give you a head-start when looking at the code in object.c
and class.c.

Good luck,

Lyle