From: Benedikt Rosenau <zickzack@...>
Date: 2002-11-20T03:29:53+09:00
Subject: Inheriting from FalseClass fails

Apologies if that is covered somewhere. I searched the FAQ and
could not find it.

Consider this code snippet:

class Klass < FalseClass
  def initialize(*args)
    puts "It works"
  end
end

'ruby -v example.rb' gives:
ruby 1.6.8 (2002-11-07) [i686-linux]
example.rb:2: warning: overriding global function `initialize'
example.rb:7: undefined method `new' for Klass:Class (NameError)

Klass.methods shows that Klass is indeed missing the method new.
The same applies for FalseClass.


Is it possible to inherit from FalseClass (or NilClass, for that
matter)?
   Benedikt