From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-04-19T17:14:36+09:00
Subject: Re: - E03c - The Ruby Object Model (Revised Documentation)

Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com> wrote:
[...]
> > In the context of the Ruby Object Model, Object has not superclass
> > and does not inherit from anything.
> 
> it inherits from nothing, which is represented by "nil", which is a 
> 'living' object, which is an instance of class NilClass, which inherits 
> from Object.

With apologies to Martin Gardner,

1. Nothing is better than eternal happiness
2. A ham sandwich is better than nothing
3. Therefore, a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness

martin