From: Marcin Raczkowski Date: 2008-01-20T23:29:38+09:00 Subject: Re: String initialziation > What's your use case? Just curious. > > Regards, Martin. I thought that it might be possible to make translating of Ruby programs transparent ... like: require 'strange_hack' String.language = "pl_PL" puts "hello" => "Witaj" ---- I'm going to investigate little more, if these strings are created at startup - it should be possible to iterate over them in Objectspace. or mayby.... i just got the idea writing this post :) mayby ovverwriting String#to_s will work :)