From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-08-27T01:14:11+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie with inheritance issues...

>>>>> "J" == Jonathan D Proulx <jon@csail.mit.edu> writes:

J> What am I not seeing/understanding?

 You are working with 1.6.8, no ?

 With 1.6.8, Net::TCPSocket define its own method ::new and don't call
 #initialize 

J> irb(main):002:0> fingerme=Net::Finger.new("jon", "csail.mit.edu")

 This is Net::TCPSocket::new which is called

 It work like you want with 1.8.0


Guy Decoux