From: Florian Frank <flori@...>
Date: 2009-11-20T02:11:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Any official name for Ruby's class which makes "class me

David A. Black wrote:
 > The metaclasses are anonymous. The metaclass (or whatever we call it)
 > of String, for example, is a completely separate class/object from
 > String:

Yes. And these things, that shall never be named, aren't much like
classes either: They cannot create any instances for example. In Ruby
terminology they are much closer to modules in the sense, that they are
containers of methods, that are used to extend objects.

-- 
Florian Frank