From: Jim Driscoll <j@...>
Date: 2004-01-25T20:23:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Constant inheritance


On 25 Jan 2004, at 11:11, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:

> 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).
>

You could just use a class variable (e.g. @@x) instead, the downside 
being that it *would* be variable rather than constant.


Jim