From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-11-24T19:37:47+09:00
Subject: Re: How to avoid inheriting Object?

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:18:24PM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:29:09 +0900, itsme213 <itsme213@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > How do I create a class that does not inherit from Object?
> 
> You can't. All objects inherit from Object.
> 
> If, however, you want a bare class (e.g., nothing except __send__ and
> __id__), then there are ways to do that. Look at the evilruby project
> and I think that Jim Weirich has said stuff about this on his
> onestepback blog.

Actually, evil.rb does provide objects which do not inherit from Object.
In fact, you'd normally have to add __send__ and __id__ yourself.
BlankSlate just 'undefines' the instance methods, but it doesn't do
anything about singleton methods of the class, for instance.

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