From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2008-12-05T11:33:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20353] Re: Leave my open classes alone (was Behavior: autoload calls rb_require()  directly)


On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Interesting.  if a = "cat" calls String.new, it should take an
> (string) argument to initialize the content "cat", then how should the
> original content sting be initialized?

Ah, got me :)...

Except....

It seems to me that there is a set of basic types which sit below  
types such as fixnum and string. They're the raw data that the lexer  
and parser deal with. What makes them _Ruby_ numbers and strings is  
when that raw data gets wrapped up snugly inside a Ruby class.

So, I think there's some merit in having the turn "cat" into some kind  
of basic character sequence, and passing that to String.new.

Maybe...


Dave