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- From: js@montaigne.lif.icnet.uk (Jack Shirazi <js@biu.icnet.uk>)
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- Subject: Re: anything isKindOf: nil ==> true (Objectwork
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 09:23:18 -0000
- Organization: Imperial Cancer Research Fund
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- In article <92121618993@zone4.ocunix.on.ca> anthony@zone4.ocunix.on.ca (Anthony Lander) writes:
- >Actually, since Object is a subclass of nil (go and look if you don't believe
- >me), everything that inherits from Object is-a nil.
- >Anthony Lander anthony@zone4.ocunix.on.ca
- >
- That got me at first when I looked in the browser and saw
- "nil subclass: Object", but in fact this just denotes the fact
- that when the message #superclass is sent to Object, nil is returned.
- This does not mean that Object is a subclass of nil
-
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- Jack js@bison.lif.icnet.uk
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- If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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