From: Peter Reilly <peterreilly@...>
Date: 2005-04-19T17:27:03+09:00
Subject: Re: - E03c - The Ruby Object Model (Revised Documentation)

Ilias Lazaridis wrote:

> 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)"

Very zen like!

Peter

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