From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-03-27T23:47:09+09:00
Subject: Re: PATCH: A subclassable Pathname

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evan Phoenix [mailto:evanwebb@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 12:51 AM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: PATCH: A subclassable Pathname
> 
> 
> A simply change (changing all references of "Pathname.new" to
> "self.class.new") allows for an easily subclassable Pathname. 
> I doubt I need to explain why thats a good thing.

Evan is absolutely correct.  Come to think of it, I've broken this rule
myself.  Time to go back and review my code.

Dan