From: Csaba Henk <csaba@..._for_avoiding_spam.org>
Date: 2005-01-25T06:00:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Complex Library Object/Class and its Interface

On 2005-01-24, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> A fair suggestion. The problem though is I'd have to make an instance
> of the class just to read the exclusive, start and stop information. I
> thought about doing it that way and creating dummy tokens to use, but
> using dummy tokens seemed rather unRubyish. It would be better if I
> could get that info with out instantiating the class.

Make those methods instance methods, but...

Don't make it a class, make it a module. Extend it by itself. 

Instead of 

class Marker < Parser::Token
....

do special customizations as

module Marker
  extend self
  extend Parser::Token
....

Csaba