Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: [EVALUATION] - E03e - The Ruby Object Model (Summary)"
>     on Thu, 21 Apr 2005 23:29:31 +0900, Ilias Lazaridis <ilias / lazaridis.com> writes:
> 
> |I hope the responsible person has more courage.
> 
> I may be the responsible person.

"may be" is not an answer that I would expect from an PL designer.

> I assume your question is why there's no method to obtain singleton
> class (per object hidden class), right?  

You find my 3 questions within the original message of this thread.

Could you please have the courtesy to reply there?

> That's because I see no real "need" for it.

I see.

> Besides seeing no real need, such method is highly connected to the
> current implementation.  Future Ruby (or different implementation of
> Ruby interpreter) may want to choose other strategy, for example,
> creating a temporary class-like object to manipulate singleton
> methods, then update internal object structure according to that
> class-like object.  Under the implementation like this, a method to
> obtain singleton class has no meaning.

There's something that irritates me with all this.

But I'm not sure what.

> Anyway, for your information, David Alan Black is in the process of
> persuading me to add such a method.

I don't know "David Alan Black".

But: not he should 'pursuade' you to add such a method.

Rationality should do.

> 							matz.

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