From: Matthew Moss <matthew.moss.coder@...>
Date: 2006-04-15T00:44:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Default value for any type?

On 4/14/06, Victor Shepelev <vshepelev@imho.com.ua> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I have code:
>
> def create_default(type)
>   type.new
> end
>
> But with, for example, Float, it suddenly said:
>
> create_default(Float) #<=== undefined method `new' for Float:Class
> (NoMethodError)
>
> Hmmm? How can I uniformly obtain default value for given class?


class Float
  def Float.new
    0.0
  end
end