IsPython really O-O?

[Laura Creighton]

(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 Creighton