On Jan 30, 2009, at 10:53 AM, James Gray wrote: > I'm for singleton_class. It's what the official documentation has > used for a long time now. It's also not like it will be the only > overloaded term in computing. eigenton_class? :-) eigen_class or singleton_class doesn't really matter to me at this point but I do feel strongly that the object returned by: (class <<obj; self; end) should be available via a simple method call rather than only via that expression. Gary Wright