From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2007-06-29T06:42:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Proc initialize method not called under certain circumstances

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Lam (CLR) [mailto:jflam@microsoft.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:25 PM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: Proc initialize method not called under certain 
> circumstances
> 
> 
> So, is it correct to assume that for language constructs that 
> create built-in types like Range, Array, Hash etc that 
> user-defined initialize methods are never called?

Correct. Unfortunately.

To wit:

class String
   def initialize(str)
      puts "Hello John!"
      str
   end
end

s1 = String.new('yo1')
'Hello John!'
=> 'yo1'

s2 = 'yo2'
=> 'yo2'

Personally, I've never liked it. I don't know what Ruby 2 will do.

Regards,

Dan


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