From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-06-29T06:54:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Proc initialize method not called under certain circumstances

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:24:48 +0900, "John Lam (CLR)" <jflam@microsoft.com> wrote:
> 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?

Yes.  Generally, Class.new calls .allocate and then #initialize on the returned
object, but there's no guarantee that either of those methods will be used if
the object is created a different way and/or if .new is overridden for a particular
class.

-mental