From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2004-02-21T10:20:00+09:00 Subject: Re: PATCH: OpenStruct#initialize to yield self Hi, In message "Re: PATCH: OpenStruct#initialize to yield self" on 04/02/21, Joel VanderWerf writes: |Someone mentioned before that it lets you construct an object that can |be GC-ed as soon as initialize is done. FWIW. What is the benefit of "object that can be GC-ed as soon as initialize is done", which seems like useless for me? matz.