From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2011-06-23T11:38:13+09:00
Subject: Re: REWORK - Task: Unify behaviour of by-literal-instantiated Objects

On 21 Ιούν, 04:14, Ilias Lazaridis <il...@lazaridis.com> wrote:
> (Note: This task is part of the RUBY REWORK, which has (among other
> goals) the goal to remove inconsistencies and limitations in the
> Object Model and in the language. The time frame for the overall
> rework is 3 months.)
[...]

> The task is, to modify the ruby interpreter, thus objects instantiated
> from literals behave like normally created objects, thus the above
> code works as expected (the redefined initialize method is called).
[...]

> Needed Assistance (via emails):
>
> ideally:
> * Around 1 hour from a person with toolchain experiences (VC++ express
> or mingw)

obsolete, no assistance needed

> * Around 1 hour from a person which is familiar with the ruby C source
> codes

obsolete, no assistance needed, relevant information found within:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/ext_ruby.html

> * Around 1 hour from a person which is familiar with the ruby cross-
> platform testing

obsolete, no assistance needed

(implementation will be very "thin" and need anyway a review/revision
from the C-OO-model maintainer)

> Work Plan:
>
> * 1 day : setup of tool-chain (compiler, debugger, IDE)
> * 1 day : looking around in source code
> * 1 day : implementation of 1st solution
> * 1 day : implementation of 2nd solution
> * 1 day : choose solution, refactoring, tests and documentation
> * 1 day : spare day
[...]

Still, it would be nice if someone could review/test a result prior to
submission.

So, if you like to do so, please contact me in private.

.

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