On Thu, 22 May 2003, Chris Burkert wrote:

> I agree, but wasn't it possible to create classes outside of the
> hierarchy with no super class or am I wrong? I guess I remember
> something like that.

You may be able to create a class with nil as the super class.  Let's try
it!

<firing up a new squeak image>

I just tried to create a class with nil as the superclass, and it saved
fine- but when I looked at the class def, it had put ProtoObject in there.
There is probably a way to get around this, but what good is a brain dead
object? :) ProtoObject is pretty limited, and is probably close enough.
It supports some things like testing if it's nil, #doesNotUnderstand:, and
a few other things.

Regards,
Aaron

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