From: Dan Doel Date: 2004-01-25T20:38:43+09:00 Subject: Re: Constant inheritance class A X = 0 def X X end end p A.new.X class B < A A::X = 10 end p B.new.X This works, but you get a warning: "prac.rb:13: warning: already initialized constant X" Constants technically aren't constant in Ruby. - Dan