From: aero6dof@... (Alan Chen)
Date: 2004-05-28T22:00:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Struct derivation

Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de> wrote in message news:<slrncbab7l.2n5.trash@o2.net.philkern.de>...
> Hi Ruby folks.
> 
> It's impossible to me to inherit a class from Struct when the class does not
> share its constructor with the Struct superclass.
> Struct implements .new on its own, instead of properly implementing it by
> initialize, so the following is impossible:
> 
> >>> snip >>>
> class X < Struct
>   def initialize; super(:foo, :bar); end
> end
> 

I could be wrong, but I think you actually want:

class X < Struct.new(:foo,:bar)
  def initialize; end
end

Or are you trying to create a new class X which can build new classes like struct?