From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-10-29T10:54:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23702] Re: ref. constructors and new (was: Re: class Foo does not call Class.new?)

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> 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")) ...

But String.new("abc") would become String.new(aNewStringObject),
wouldn't it?  The literal only gets converted once.


Dave