From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-28T18:04:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15845] Re: subclassing Date

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:15840] Re: subclassing Date"
    on 01/05/28, Michael Husmann <Michael.Husmann@teleatlas.com> writes:

|Could you look at it again? Thank you,

You're defining an instance method new3.  I think you have to define a
class method, for example:

  class My_date < Date
      def My_date.new(st)
          l = st.split(".")
        p l
          y, m, d = l.collect{|s| s.to_i}
          printf("year: %d, month: %d, day: %d\n", y, m, d)
          super(y,m,d)
      end
  end

  st = "2001.5.28"
  d = My_date.new(st)

It works fine for me.

							matz.