From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-04-20T00:12:10+09:00
Subject: Re: - E03c - The Ruby Object Model (Revised Documentation)

Ilias Lazaridis wrote:

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

Not all nothings you can possibly think of are represented by 'nil'. One 
example: If there is nothing in an Array that is not the same as [nil].

So there really is not much of a meaningful connection between Object 
and NilClass. (That way -- NilClass inherits from Object, however)