From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-04-19T14:58:16+09:00
Subject: Re: - E03c - The Ruby Object Model (Revised Documentation)

On Tuesday 19 April 2005 12:59 am, Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> > In this case it returns nil because Object does not have a superclass,
> > i.e. it does not inherit from anything.
>
> In context of an Language Object Model:
> Object inherits from "nil".

Nothing can inherit from nil, for nil is not an instance of Class... as 
demonstrated below.

>> class NilSubClass < nil; end
TypeError: superclass must be a Class (NilClass given)
	from (irb):10

In the context of the Ruby Object Model, Object has not superclass and does 
not inherit from anything.

Please remove the inaccuracies in your Language Object Model.

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