From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-10-30T13:28:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23801] Re: ref. constructors and new (was: Re: class Foo does not call Class.new?)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:23724] Re: ref. constructors and new (was: Re: class Foo does not call Class.new?)"
    on 01/10/29, Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:

|You showed a chain:
|
|  "abc" -> String.new("abc") -> String.new(String.new("abc")) ...
|
|presumably to show that this would recurse indefinitely. But I don't
|think this would be the case.

I meant "conceptual loop".  If there's no other way than String.new to
create strings, there's no way to create the first string, unless you
prepare something unnatural like [ruby-talk:23727].

Anyway, what does it mean for you, if I pay this price.

							matz.