From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-11-13T04:41:23+09:00
Subject: Re: warning: redefining Object#initialize may cause infinite loop

On Nov 11, 2004, at 4:23 PM, Stu wrote:

>
> Is there anyway I can supress this warning?
>
> I tried setting $VERBOSE = FALSE before then
> back to TRUE after my bit of code but nothing...
>
> I seem to unconciously miscode initialize to initialise.
> every. single. time.
>
> so I did
>
> class Object
>     def initialize
> 	initialise
>     end
> end

Redefine Object.new, not Object#initialize

# untested code below, but I think it is OK.

class Object
	def self.new(*args, &block)
		obj = allocate

		if obj.respond_to? :initialise then
			obj.initialise
		else
			obj.initialize
		end
		
		return obj
	end
end