From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-07-17T00:52:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17936] Re: Deriving from Class

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:17927] Re: Deriving from Class"
    on 01/07/16, ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:

|>>>>> "t" == ts  <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:
|
|t>  This make something strange if I'm right (A is the new class)
|
| He'll have surprise :-)

Probably that's the reason (I still don't remember what I though 3
years ago).  An instance of subclass of Class requires its superclass
(which is instance of A), but how can there be root of A without
having instance of A (as superclass of the root).

There's similar circular situation for Module and Class, but Ruby
bootstraps the hierarchy in its initialization.

							matz.