From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-08-16T02:54:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Thought question: Where does "new" come from?

On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 02:38:01AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> > 
> >  (Class)  is the singleton class associated with Class
> >  (Object) is the singleton class associated with Object
> 
> Oh, yes, of course. Where the singleton information
> goes.
> 
> I am still unclear why these are conceptually
> necessary.
> 
> If I do a "def Object.foo" why does it have to go into
> (Object) as opposed to just Object?

I think it is for uniformity's sake, so you can handle the same way these
situations:
 	def Object.foo
	def anobject.foo  
in the second line we really need the singleton class, and, having
implemented this, the first one comes for free.

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