From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T08:31:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Factory pattern, abstract base class

Daniel Berger wrote:
> Perhaps my whole approach is wrong.  What is the proper way to achieve
> what I'm after (without resorting to making Bar a module)?
>   
The return value from initialize has nothing to do with the object 
returned from new, which will always be a new instance of the class. To 
do what you want, define a singleton method not named "new" that returns 
a new object based on its argument.