From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-10-30T13:36:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23802] Re: ref. constructors and new (was: Re: class Foo does not call Class.new?)

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

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

For me? Not a lot, really. I like the orthogonality of it, but it
isn't something I've ever needed.

Except once. When I was altering Rubicon to do the tests for MetaRuby,
it was a pain to do the String and Array tests, because I had to
change every instance of "str" to S("str") to generate an object of
the appropriate class. Being able to override String construction
would have been useful there.

In general, it seems like a facility that would be nice to have for
all the meta-programming that's going on (RinR, Behaviors, etc), but
not for daily coding.


Regards


Dave