"Rudolf Polzer" <denshimeiru-sapmctacher / durchnull.ath.cx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:slrnbg69ll.99k.denshimeiru-sapmctacher / message-id.durchnull.ath.cx... > class Human < Beer Hm, I find this modeling a tad bit unrealistic. > i = Human.new() In fact we both made an error here: you need a factory and a helper class (both sub classes of Human) to create a new Human. Cheese robert