From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-06-20T09:03:43+09:00
Subject: Re: problem with inner classes

Hi,

In message "Re: problem with inner classes"
    on 02/06/20, "k" <kturing@yahoo.com> writes:

|This (of course) works:
|  class Abstract
|  end
|  class Outer
|  end
|  class Outer < Abstract
|  end
|
|I think he wants this to work too:
|  class Abstract
|  end
|  class Outer < Abstract
|  end
|  class Outer
|  end
|
|That working would suprise me, personally.

I think you meant the former does not work, the latter does.
When re-defining a class, a class statement should be either

 * no superclass specified
 * same superclass specified

It's the reason that the former did not work.

							matz.