metaclass
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
metaclass (plural metaclasses)
- (object-oriented programming) A class that serves as a template for other classes rather than objects.
- 1997, John Hunt, Smalltalk and Object Orientation: An Introduction, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 345:
- That is, all metaclasses (such as
Collection class
,Object class
andSet class
) are instances of the classMetaclass
. This is because all metaclasses have the same behavior. They define the structure, definition and behavior of a class.
Translations[edit]
object-oriented programming
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