From: Andrew Hunt <Andy@...>
Date: 2000-03-15T21:17:00-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01874] object creation


Hi all,

Just a quick question -- is the following sequence the correct
way to create a Ruby object from C?

  NEWOBJ(obj, c-type)  -- allocate memory for an object
  OBJSETUP(obj, class, T_class); -- set appropriate flags
  rb_obj_call_init(obj, argc, argv); -- call initialize

There was some discussion a while back on whether *every* class called 
initialize or not, how did that end up?  It would apper from the
current code that most of the built-in classes *do not* call
an initialize method.

Many thanks!

/\ndy

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