From: Chuck Remes Date: 2010-03-15T23:59:42+09:00 Subject: Re: Overriding new? On Mar 15, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Andrea Dallera wrote: > Hei Chuck, > > that's exactly what i was trying to avoid. While I'm at it, let me be > more specific about my problem, which is actually not just printing out > text to the console but changing the state of the newly created > instance: > Ah, I didn't read your original email very closely. I don't know how to accomplish that without #super. There might be a way to modify the parent's meta class and then have the child pick up that value, but I'm not really sure how to do it. cr