From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T23:20:35+09:00
Subject: Re: warning: redefining Object#initialize may cause infinite loop

Hi,

In message "Re: warning: redefining Object#initialize may cause infinite loop"
    on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:48:00 +0900, "Trans" <transfire@gmail.com> writes:

|irb(main):001:1class Object
|irb(main):002:1>   alias :init :initialize
|irb(main):003:1>   def initialize( *args, &blk )
|irb(main):004:2>     init( *args, &blk )
|irb(main):005:2>   end
|irb(main):006:1> end
|(irb):3: warning: redefining Object#initialize may cause infinite loop
|
|Is this warning really neccessary?

Object#initialize is too broad.  If you allocate anything that calls
Object#initialize it would turned out to be infinite loop which is
definitely not expected at all.  I was surprised when I met it.

							matz.