Hal Fulton <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com> wrote: > > But in that sense, a "singleton class" is not a class at all. > It is just a "place" where we store information on unique methods > and attributes and such. A class also has a "place" associated > with it -- whether you think of it as a place in memory, or in > the interpreter's code, or in the programmer's brain. But in Ruby, a class is pretty much a place where method lookup is done, is it not? Hence the whole class/type debate. martin