From: Christian Boos <cboos@...>
Date: 2002-04-10T21:32:46+09:00
Subject: RE: Little interface improvement request for embedding Ruby

Hi Nobu,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobu.nokada@softhome.net [mailto:nobu.nokada@softhome.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 7:06 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Little interface improvement request for embedding Ruby
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At Wed, 10 Apr 2002 00:51:55 +0900,
> Christian Boos wrote:
> > Currently I have not found a way to detect if the initialization
> > was done or not. Maybe there's a workaround (I'm interested++) but
> > I think the best way is the one I suggested.
> 
> I suppose you can check whether rb_cObject or something is
> initialized or not.
> 

I could if they were initialized to some meaningful value 
(e.g.  declared as VALUE rb_cObject = Qnil; )

But unfortunately all the extern values are left uninitialized and
can't be reliably checked. I aggree that this would be an other
alternative.

-- Christian