From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-11-17T06:49:01+09:00
Subject: Re: meta-class subclass relationships

Hi --

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Greg Weeks wrote:

>> I believe Jim Weirich once said that the only real metaclass in Ruby
>> is Class, since it's the source of class instances.
>
> True if "real" means "non-virtual", as it so often does.  But that
> leaves
> virtual metaclasses, at the heart of Ruby metaprogramming.

I'm not sure in what sense they're virtual (though I know that
terminology occurs in some error messages). Once they're created, they
exist as first-class objects.


David

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