(Hopefully the brain cannot be permanently damaged by excessive pondering) Gary Wright wrote: > > I suppose but then you have to explain why the singleton class didn't > provide a masking implementation of its own superclass method, which > you don't want it to do since that would break > various other semantics in particular the behavior of singleton > classes of classes and method lookup on class instances. > Come to think of it, isn't this how things are in ruby 1.9? (At least this is how I read Christophers post in this thread). Kind regards