From: Arlen Christian Mart Cuss <celtic@...>
Date: 2007-09-28T21:05:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Making 'new' private in a C extension.


On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 02:55 +0900, alterego@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>   I'm writing a C extension, one of the classes I define can only be
> instantiated via a defined 'get_instance' singleton method. This method will
> only ever return one instance, that is, successive calls will always return
> exactly the same ruby object.
> 
>   My problem is that someone could still call 'new' on the class. I'd like to
> remove that possibility by making 'new' private. Unfortunately I can't for the
> life of me work out how.
> 
>   Any help on this subject will be much appreciated. - Tom


If it helps, you'd just do a "private :new" in the class -- see the
other guy's response for what looks to be correct. I haven't written a C
extension though, so I don't know how you'd do the equivalent.

Good luck. :)