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  • I am not so sure about meta-meta-classes, or at least not that name.

    Suppose you have a class Book. You refer to the class as Book, and instances of the class as Books. The same name is used interchangeably without confusion. I think that the same should apply to 'meta-class'. Just as Books are instances of the Book class, I think meta-classes are instances of the meta-class class.

    AFAIK The C<Class> class is the meta-class class in perl 6, and meta-classes are instances of C<Class> (what you ge
    • Hmm, my understanding is that meta-meta-class does not exist in the language per se; it is a concrete implementation of the metaclass in the compiler or interpreter itself. The user would have no way to directly access or manipulate meta-meta-classes -- it is essentially an "out of system" thing of interest only to language implementors.
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