> Jason> He said explicitly that MetaNil wouldn't be an object, therefor no one
> Jason> could try to put it in anything.  Think of something like "unbound" in
> Jason> Lisp.  Of course this would likely be a huge change.
> 
> To create the first non-object in a sea of objects will likely break every bit
> of inspection, introspection, copying, storing, and what not that we already
> have.  This sounds far scarier than the "fill with self" strategies or the
> "includesNil" strategies already described.
> 

it would just not be Smalltalk anymore...

Stef