From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2010-08-15T14:58:46+09:00
Subject: Re: kind_of?( NilClass )

On Saturday, August 14, 2010 03:10:28 pm Philipp Kempgen wrote:
> Steve Klabnik wrote:
> > You can always var.nil?
> 
> Well, yes if the var is a kind_of?(Object) but not if
> it's just a BasicObject.

The purpose of a BasicObject is, generally, to implement proxy classes. 
Presumably, this would send a nil? through to whatever you were proxying, 
right?

Also, I don't see a kind_of? on BasicObject, either, so calling pretty much 
anything on var would fail.