From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-10-29T14:15:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23709] Re: ref. constructors and new (was: Re: class Foo does not call Class.new?)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:23702] Re: ref. constructors and new (was: Re: class Foo does not call Class.new?)"
    on 01/10/29, Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:

|> 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.

I'm not sure I get what you mean.  Then how literal strings are
created, without String.new?

							matz.