[ ruby-Bugs-6413 ] Some Time Constructors Fail to Call initialize

Bugs item #6413, was opened at 2006-10-31 13:44
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Category: Language / Runtime / Core Libraries
Group: 1.8.x
Status: Open
Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 3
Submitted By: David Wheeler (theory)
Assigned to: Shyouhei Urabe (shyouhei)
Summary: Some Time Constructors Fail to Call initialize

Initial Comment:
Some of the Time class constructor methods fail to call the initialize method in a subclass. For example, for this simple subclass:

class MyTime < Time
  def initialize
    puts "Hello world!"
  end
end

When I test it with the constructor methods, none of these outputs the print statement:

* at
* parse
* httpdate
* rfc2822
* rfc822
* local


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>Comment By: Shyouhei Urabe (shyouhei)
Date: 2007-05-30 11:44

Message:
Subclassing is one thing, calling #initialize is another.

Subclassing is allowed since 1.8.6 (to fix [#6400]), and #initialize is still not called. Object initialization is not always done by #initialize.

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Comment By: Ryan Davis (zenspider)
Date: 2007-05-30 11:00

Message:
I couldn't find matz's rejection on the ruby-core archives on blade. I found this: http://marc.info/?l=ruby-core&m=116228212521416&w=1 which says it was accepted and fixed. It doesn't appear to be so:

>> MyTime.parse("2007-01-02").class
=> Time

So... _should_ this be rejected? I don't think there is a good reason not to allow Time to be subclassed. It is immutable which makes it a little special, but I don't see that affecting subclassing.

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Comment By: David Wheeler (theory)
Date: 2007-05-30 08:47

Message:
Hrm. The rejection makes subclassing problematic. May I ask why?

Thanks!

David

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Comment By: Shyouhei Urabe (shyouhei)
Date: 2007-05-30 08:20

Message:
rejected by matz: [ruby-core:9361]

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Comment By: Ryan Davis (zenspider)
Date: 2006-11-02 16:11

Message:
This almost entirely goes through time_new_internal.

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