From: Chris Carter <cdcarter@...>
Date: 2007-01-02T03:20:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Little Things

On 1/1/07, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> wrote:
> >
> > |I take it you don't like meta_class, the most often proposed name for
> > |it. How about virtual_class, or singleton_class, or both?
> >
> > It's not really a meta class since it's not only for classes,
> > nor virtual_class since it's not virtual anymore.
>
> I wonder: is it a mistake to think of it as a class at all? Sure, it
> had a 'class' somewhere in its background, but is potentially moved
> on a lot since then. In a way, it's move analogous to a meta-binding,
> as it's the execution environment of an object. So, just to get the
> creative juices flowing, and in the spirit of brainstorming, how about
>
> obj.personality
>
> obj.capability
>
> obj.implementation
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Dave
>
>

I would like to put my vote in for

obj.super_ego

-- 
Chris Carter
concentrationstudios.com
brynmawrcs.com