Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01000] object-creation"
    on 99/12/20, "Michael Neumann" <neumann / s-direktnet.de> writes:

|Is it possible to create a Point-object without calling "new" that
|automatically calles "initialize"?

Not from Ruby.  Using C extension you can.

|I've tried it this way:
|      def  my_new
|          aPoint = Class.new(Object)
|          aPoint.x = 4        # error
|      end

Class.new creates new unnamed class (not instance).