From: "Ralf Müller" <r_mueller@...>
Date: 2005-04-19T17:37:44+09:00
Subject: Re: - E03c - The Ruby Object Model (Revised Documentation)

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:14:36 +0900
Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
> 

And that's what the whole things is about.
Many thanks to you martin. I can't guess a better summary.