From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-10-31T23:38:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23953] Re: ref. constructors and new (was: Re: class Foo does not call Class.new?)


On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:
> 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

Well, I first thought it was a good idea, but then, I have a bias towards
features that "turn Ruby upside-down" or "hook into Ruby"...

> 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.

... but then I realize that this particular feature may very well become
redundant by the end of the year.

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