From: Erik Veenstra <erikveen@...>
Date: 2006-07-23T16:36:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Set an instance variable before and after initialize

That won't work: initialize is private. And it might better to
overwrite Object.new, so it works for all classes.

What about singleton? (I mean "include Singleton".)

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/

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 class Object
   def self.new( *args, &blk )
     o = allocate
     o.instance_variable_set( "@foo", "anything")
     o.instance_eval{initialize( *args, &blk )}
     o.instance_variable_set( "@bar", "anything")
     o
   end
 end

 class Foo
   def initialize(baz)
     @baz       = baz
   end

   def bar
     p @foo
     p @bar
     p @baz
   end
 end

 Foo.new(8).bar

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