From: Shannon Fang <xrfang@...>
Date: 2002-12-01T23:31:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [FAQ] What do some of Ruby's symbols mean?

Hi David

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 23:17:15 +0900
dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:

> Can you phrase this in such a way that it doesn't sound like something
> terribly weird or arcane?  It would really be too bad to taint this
> powerful and perfectly idiomatic technique with that reputation.

I fully respect the effort all the community members and developers are
developing the language... But at my level, I can't understand the
beauty of using a sigleton class associated with an object. I can only
manage to understand class method/instance method, and some basics of
mixins, which I think is exactly same as java interfaces.

Could you please give me an example to illustrate why we need class <<
obj? May be it is also a good thing if we can collect some explanations
to such thing, I think it will be a good text book for understanding OOP.

Shannon