Classes and metaclasses

[Dan Sugalski]

So, if I understand this right (and I may well not), when you 
instantiate a metaclass you get a class, and when you instantiate a 
class you get an object, and since anything you instantiate is an 
object anyway that means classes are objects. I'm not entirely sure 
if metaclasses are objects, but it seems to lack a certain amount of 
egregious symmetry if it doesn't.

That means, I think, that you ought to be able to call methods on 
classes, which since you can I think we're mostly OK, though I expect 
some reworking of base behaviour might be in order. (Though nobody 
outside of us on the list are likely to ever use it so far as I can 
tell :)

The one question I have is whether we need to have a "call class 
method" operation that, when you invoke it, looks up the class of the 
object and redispatches to it, or whether class methods are just 
methods called on class objects.
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                                        Dan

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