From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-05-17T09:47:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Metaclasses...

Hi,

In message "Metaclasses..."
    on 02/05/17, "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

|I've been trying to understand metaclasses

You don't have to, because there's no such a thing in Ruby.
In Smalltalk, a metaclass is a class of a class.

In Ruby, the Class class is the class of all classes, no metaclass.
But every object (of course including classes) can have hidden
meta-object (the place holder for singleton methods), which is only
revealed by the "singleton class notation".

							matz.