From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-01T10:20:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14467] Re: Overloading Constructors.

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:14459] Overloading Constructors."
    on 01/05/01, "Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org> writes:

|Can I derive Classes from Classes defined in a c-extension of ruby (such as
|the mysql - library)?

Not all c-extensions call "initialize" from their "new" method.  This
style is relatively new, so that many extensions are in transition.

Ask their maintainers to "add rb_obj_call_init() to new method".
It's recommended style anyway.

							matz.