From: dejaspam@... (Bill Atkins)
Date: 2004-05-21T04:58:46+09:00
Subject: Overriding "", [], and {}

Is there any way to cause "", [], and {} to have different behaviors. 
I'd like to be able to have {} create OrderedHash's instead of Hash's,
but I don't know how to change this behavior.  If I do Hash =
OrderedHash, then Hash.new will create an OrderedHash, but {} still
gives me an old-fashioned hash.  If I do

def Hash.new *args
   OrderedHash.new *args
end

I get the same results.  Is it possible to override these built-in
constructors?

Bill