From: David Flanagan <dflanagan@...>
Date: 2009-05-14T07:10:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Superclass of eigenclass

On May 11, 5:42 am, Danny O cuiv <danny.oc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rick, Robert,
>
> Thanks again for your replies.
>
> Rick wrote:
> > If you go in and look at the implementation, you'll find that the
> >eigenclassof String has asuperclassslot which points to the
> >eigenclassof Object, but thesuperclassmethod implementation skips
> > past 'singleton' classes, until it gets to <Class:Class>
>
> To me, that smacks of being ad hoc and inconsistent. Thesuperclass
> method implementation skips past 'singleton' classes, until it gets to
> #<Class:Class>. But #<Class:Class> is itself a 'singleton' class, so I
> can't see the rationale there. In other words, I can't really grasp what
> semantics are being exposed.

The implementation details are leaking.  No semantics should be read
into this, I think.

> I'd have to confess that this seems like a conceptual mess to me. I
> presume that I'm grasping the wrong end of some stick or other. Can
> anyone help point out what that might be?

It is a conceptual mess.  It seems somewhat clearer, however, with
Ruby 1.9.

> Regards,
>
> Danny
>
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