From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2005-04-19T17:24:33+09:00
Subject: Re: - E03c - The Ruby Object Model (Revised Documentation)

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: - E03c - The Ruby Object Model (Revised Documentation)"
>     on Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:04:33 +0900, Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com> 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.

I am myself confused, but will shortly be in clarity.

for now I can only rephrase to:

"class Object inherits from nothing (represented by object nil)"

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