From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2001-10-30T22:48:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23842] Re: ref. constructors and new (was: Re: class Foo does not call Class.new?)

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> But things are not simple as they appear.  Suppose we call String.new
> for string literals,
>
>   def String.new(str)
>      StringSubclass.new(str)
>   end
>
> would cause infinite loop, and I don't think there's no easy work
> around for it.

When would this be useful?  If the base class implementation depends on
the implementation of the derived class, then I question whether this is
really a good relationship.  Perhaps the pimpl idiom would be more useful
in this case?

Paul