The philosophy of Nothing

[Reinier Zwitserloot]

You've got it flipped around.

Nothing is a subtype of Object. (and of String, and of Number, and of
Integer, etc).

--Reinier Zwitserloot

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On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Paul Benedict <pbenedict at apache.org> wrote:

> I have a philosophical problem with this portion of the spec:
> > Nothing is a subtype of every obect type.
>
> How can something be a subtype of nothing? I think my philosophy
> professors would have flunked me in college if I were to assert that.
> :-)
>
> Are we really going to see java.lang.Object now as a subtype of
> java.lang.Nothing in the API docs?
>
> Paul
>
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