From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2004-06-22T07:03:49+09:00
Subject: Re: opening a file in ext

On Monday 21 June 2004 14:43, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> > On Monday 21 June 2004 14:25, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> >> This should work:
> >>
> >> return rb_funcall(rb_cFile, rb_intern(":new"), rb_str_new2("filename"));
> >
> > Oops, try:
> >
> > return rb_funcall(rb_cFile, rb_intern(":new"), 1,
> > rb_str_new2("filename"));
> >
> > 	Sean O'Dell
>
> hmmm.  is this really the best way?  i mean, why not call the dispatched to
> method directly?  i suppose this insulates you from name changes - but it
> seems like one should be to call it directly doesn't it?

Since in C you don't have access to all of the C functions that implement 
every method in every class, it's simply the most consistent way to make the 
call.  If you know the actual C function name, I'm sure you could call that 
directly.

	Sean O'Dell