From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-06-29T13:47:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Proc initialize method not called under certain circumstances

Hi,

In message "Re: Proc initialize method not called under certain circumstances"
    on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:01:57 +0900, murphy <murphy@rubychan.de> writes:

|I would feel much better if I knew the reason for that. and please don't
|say it's for performance reasons...
|
|is there a design principle behind that? or some less obvious technical
|limitation?

If we allow users to intercept every object allocation, it would cause
serious trouble too easily, especially for built-in objects, such as
Strings or Arrays.  I consider Proc is one of them.

							matz.