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Re: Smalltalk question



> From tribble Mon Feb  5 10:08:34 1990
> 
> VoidClass and NullClass were originally *not* subclasses of Object so
> that they errored on any message send.  In order to survive, they
> needed to implement some of the basic object functionality.  I had
> sufficient trouble handling them (they didn't implement things the
> debugger expected, etc.) that I just made them a subclass of object
> again.  ClassBuilder is probably some primitive magic.

???  I thought ALL Smalltalk objects (except "Object") were descended
from Object.