From: chr_news@... (Christoph)
Date: 2001-11-13T19:09:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24997] Re: Range weirdness

> Thanks.  This helps, although it is unfortunate that such a hack is 
> required.

It seems that Matz undefined #new in Integer only recently. A bit 
unfortunate IMO - it is not like that you necessarily shoot yourself 
in the foot if you are subclassing Integer.