From: mark sparshatt <msparshatt@...>
Date: 2005-04-19T17:30:48+09:00
Subject: Re: - E03c - The Ruby Object Model (Revised Documentation)

Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> Martin DeMello wrote:
> 
>> Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In context of an Language Object Model:
>>>
>>> Object inherits from "nil".
>>
>>
>> Object does *not* inherit from nil. Object.superclass returns 'nil'
>> because Object has no superclass.
> 
> 
> I've not said that "Object inherits from Class nil".
> 
> I've said: Object inherits from nil
> 
> which is true.
> 
Surely if Object inherits from nil then Object should inherit all of 
nil's methods

nil.methods - Object.methods #=> ["&", "|", "^", "to_i", "to_s"]

Object.to_s #=> NoMethodError: undefined method 'to_s' for Object:Class

Since Object doesn't inherit all of nil's methods I don't see how it can 
make sense to say that Object inherits from nil.

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Mark Sparshatt