From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2000-03-16T02:55:16+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:01854] Re: Minor irritation, can't figure out how to patch it though! Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:01847] Re: Minor irritation, can't figure out how to patch it though!" on 00/03/15, Dave Thomas writes: |You could write it as a library module which you include: | | module British | def initialize(*a) | initialise(*a) | end | end | | class Fred | include British | | def initialise(str) | printf "Initializing #{str}\n" | @str = str | end | end | | f = Fred.new("Hello") Hmm, this one and the one in [ruby-talk:01846] are almost identical to my responses respectively. I guess I've got my alterego in the states. ;-) matz.