From: gwtmp01@... Date: 2006-08-21T22:36:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Initialize and superclass On Aug 20, 2006, at 6:25 PM, jvivenot wrote: > Actually, it seems that I if I write only super because the super > initialize needs no argument, the super method gives every > arguments of > the B class to the A initialize, and thus I encounter a ArgumentError. > That's OK > Thanks If you don't want to pass any arguments to the superclass's initialize use this version: super() # no arguments So you've got: super # pass along the arguments to the current method super() # pass no arguments super(1,2) # pass these explicit arguments Gary Wright