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Subject: Metaclasses...
From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@ p m r s o
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 05:46:22 +0900

Hello, all...

I've been trying to understand metaclasses
(mostly through a search of the ruby-talk archive).

I guess I have two questions:

1. Why does MyClass.class return Class, if the
class of MyClass is really MyClass's metaclass?

2. Why do we create a metaclass if all classes are
instances of Class? Couldn't Class have been used
as a generic metaclass?

Thanks,
Hal Fulton