"Subclassing" int in Pike code

> I want something that basically works like an int, but appears
> different in sprintf("%O"). This appears to work, but seems a little
> convoluted; also, have I missed anything?

I just made a minor change to pike8 that allows you to simply inherit
Gmp.mpz.

So, your example can now be written like so:

| class x
| {
|    inherit Gmp.mpz;
|    string _sprintf(int flag,mapping o) {
|       if( flag == 'O' )
|          return "0x"+digits(16);
|        return ::_sprintf(flag,o);
|    }
| }

Note that it does not really work with Gmp.bignum, aka the actual
integer class, since that one auto-converts to a native integer
whenever it is in range.

-- 
Per Hedbor