From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2009-11-18T00:12:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Any official name for Ruby's class which makes "class me

David A. Black wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> 
>>>>
>> http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.8.7/classes/Class.html
> It says:
> 
>    All metaclasses are instances of the class `Class'.
> 
> but it does not say that all instances of Class are metaclasses :-)

But I think that is what is meant.  How else does the diagram on that 
page make sense?  Every class has an associated metaclass of the same 
name in that diagram.  What is that if not the Class object?

> That would make "metaclass" a synonym for "class", which wouldn't make
> sense.

I think that "metaclass" is here a synonym for the Class object, as 
opposed to the class declaratio or anything else.
> 
> 
> David


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