From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-10-29T08:25:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23698] Re: ref. constructors and new (was: Re: class Foo does not call Class.new?)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:23680] Re: ref. constructors and new (was: Re: class Foo does not call Class.new?)"
    on 01/10/28, David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

|OK... I guess that the [] and "" constructors still will not use
|"new"?  I'm just wondering because if they did use new, I think I
|could make Ruby Behaviors a lot better :-)

They won't (at least String won't).  It will cause infinite loop.

  "abc" -> String.new("abc") -> String.new(String.new("abc")) ...

							matz.