IsPython really O-O?

[Thomas Heller]

"Laura Creighton" <lac at strakt.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1005822025.13344.python-list at python.org...
> (I've always wanted to ask this:)
>
> The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion (p 214) discussing Proxy states:
>
> 'Since the problem lies in Proxy's subclass relation to
>          object, one way to solve it would be to dissolve this
>          relationship.  How is this possible? Subclass Proxy off nil'
>
> Do people actually do this.  Pardon this phrasing, but isn't it, ah,
> 'evil'? I'm way to scared to use it, though of course I had to write
> one just to see it.
>
Laura,

wrong group, I'd say ;-)

I remember having played with this (with great fun), but I didn't
use it in production code.

Firing up VSW311,  I find (in the class browser which probably does not
display all classes) these classes as subclasses of nil other than Object:

SelfInitializingObject
  SelfInitializingObjectReference

Smells like the proxy pattern...

Thomas