From: Rolf Gebauer <r.gebauer@...>
Date: 2007-02-07T01:20:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Inheriting from Fixnum

On 3 Feb., 09:07, "gga" <GGarram...@aol.com> wrote:
> Now... this should be simple, but, alas, it is not.
> I'm creating some special numeric classes, and I wanted to derive from
> Fixnum, for example.
>
> class Frame < Fixnum
> end
>
> While the above code works, doing then:
>
> Frame.new(20)
>
> will fail

As I' have learned from this thread, you can't inherit from Fixnum !
But maybe You can get along with Rational and its non private method !
new

require 'rational'
class Frame < Rational
end


f1 = F.new!(99)
f2 = F.new!66)


puts f2 - f1   # 33

Rolf Gebauer