From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2002-12-13T09:48:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Inheritance Question

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

G> There's not much you can do about this, except redefine Matrix#to_f to return
G> "self.class.new", if it can be done.  Then, you can agitate for this change to
G> be included in the distribution.
G>
G> (I could be barking up the wrong tree, though...)

i got given much crap for taking this approach not too long ago (note that i
agree with you).  i really think self.class.new follows POLS... even if
dangerous...

i *think* i was advocating this (self.class.new) as a general library
practice...

-a

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