From: Jonas Pfenniger <zimbatm@...>
Date: 2007-01-05T01:02:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Little Things

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2007/1/1, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>:
>
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Little Things"
>     on Mon, 1 Jan 2007 05:42:23 +0900, Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net>
> writes:
>
> |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.
>
> In my mindset, two candidates have survived.  singleton_class (or
> singletonclass), which can easily be confused with a class in the
> singleton design pattern.  And eigenclass, which is unfamiliar for
> most people.
>
>                                                         matz.


I'm all for eigenclass. Let's have some personnality and impose our own
concepts. And by using an uncommon term like this one, we have the advantage
to be able to define it like we want in the computer domain.

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