From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2004-01-25T20:11:09+09:00
Subject: Constant inheritance

Is there anyway to let a subclass overwrite a constant in the 
superclass? As in getting B.new.X in the example below to return 0. If 
not are there any similar constructions that would do something 
comparable? (short of converting the constant to a method).

irb(main):001:0> class A
irb(main):002:1> X = 0
irb(main):003:1> def X
irb(main):004:2> X
irb(main):005:2> end
irb(main):006:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):007:0> A.new.X
=> 0
irb(main):008:0> class B < A
irb(main):009:1> X = 10
irb(main):010:1> end
=> 10
irb(main):011:0> B.new.X
=> 0

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