On Monday 20 December 2004 16:45, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Perhaps curl extension does not follow the object allocation
> convention and redefines its own "new" method.  You are not suppose to
> subclass such a class.  Ask curl developer.
>
> 							matz.

 On Monday 20 December 2004 16:46, ts wrote:
>  because 'curl' define the singleton method ::new which take 0 argument,
>  i.e. apparently it don't use the scheme allocate/initialize
>
> Guy Decoux

Ah, I see. 
Thanks to you both. I'll have to resort to some kind of delegation scheme 
then.

Cheers,

Han Holl