From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2009-11-20T07:44:16+09:00 Subject: Re: Any official name for Ruby's class which makes "class me On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Florian Frank wrote: > Rick DeNatale wrote: >>> >>> Actually, I think it was Jim Weirich who pointed out that, given the >>> usual sense of the term "metaclass" as a class which produces other >>> classes, Class itself is the only metaclass in Ruby. The term is >>> sometimes used to refer to singleton classes in general, and sometimes >>> to refer only to singleton classes of Class objects: Actually no I didn't. I believe that it was David A. Black. I've been standing off from this thread. I'm writing a blog article, which I've been meaning to for at least a year, called "The object which must not be named" I hope to publish it soon. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale