From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-10-29T22:26:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23722] Re: ref. constructors and new (was: Re: class Foo does not call Class.new?)

>>>>> "Y" == Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:

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

 I think, not really sure, that he want something like this

pigeon% diff -u eval.c~ eval.c
--- eval.c~     Mon Oct 29 14:14:00 2001
+++ eval.c      Mon Oct 29 14:16:49 2001
@@ -2969,7 +2969,7 @@
        break;
 
       case NODE_STR:
-       result = rb_str_new3(node->nd_lit);
+       result = rb_funcall(rb_cString, rb_intern("new"), 1, node->nd_lit);
        break;
 
       case NODE_DSTR:
pigeon% 

 Same with NODE_ARRAY, NODE_HASH, ...

Guy Decoux