From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2005-04-19T17:10:02+09:00 Subject: Re: - E03c - The Ruby Object Model (Revised Documentation) Hi, In message "Re: - E03c - The Ruby Object Model (Revised Documentation)" on Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:04:33 +0900, Ilias Lazaridis writes: |>>Object inherits from "nil". |> |> Er, no. Object does not inherit. As was pointed out to |> you, #superclass just happens to return nil to signify |> there is no superclass. | |you can express this as "Object inherits from nil". Don't, please. It is confusing. matz.