From: ts Date: 2003-05-26T20:16:51+09:00 Subject: [1.8] terminated object / invalid inspect_tbl Normal these messages ? svg% cat b.rb #!./ruby module M define_method(:initialize) do |a| p "M::initialize #{a.inspect}" super end end module N include M define_method(:initialize) do |args| p "N::initialize #{args.inspect}" super 12 end end class A include N def initialize(a) @a = a super end end A.new([1, 2]) svg% svg% ./ruby -v b.rb ruby 1.8.0 (2003-05-19) [i686-linux] b.rb:12: warning: invalid inspect_tbl value "N::initialize [1, 2]" "M::initialize 12" b.rb:5:in `initialize': method `initialize' called on terminated object (0x40099844) (NotImplementedError) from b.rb:3:in `initialize' from b.rb:13:in `initialize' from b.rb:11:in `initialize' from b.rb:21:in `initialize' from b.rb:25:in `new' from b.rb:25 svg% Guy Decoux