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Re: Smalltalk question
- To: <tribble>
- Subject: Re: Smalltalk question
- From: Michael McClary <michael>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 90 20:00:12 PST
- Cc: <xanatech>
> 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.