From: Love U Ruby <lists@...>
Date: 2013-02-18T03:56:07+09:00
Subject: Re: What is Ruby's default constructor?

>>  class A
    >>  def Object.new initialize
    >>   p "hi"
    >>   rescue
    >>  end
    >>  end
    => nil
    >>  begin # <~~~ Here I have pressed on ENTER
    "hi"
    /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-token.rb:94:in `Token': undefined
method `set_backtrace' for "hi":String (NoMethodError)
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:348:in `block in
lex_init'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/slex.rb:236:in `call'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/slex.rb:236:in `match_io'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/slex.rb:221:in `match_io'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/slex.rb:75:in `match'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:286:in `token'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:262:in `lex'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:233:in `block (2 levels)
in each_top_level_statement'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:229:in `loop'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:229:in `block in
each_top_level_statement'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:228:in `catch'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:228:in
`each_top_level_statement'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:155:in `eval_input'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:70:in `block in start'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:69:in `catch'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:69:in `start'
      from /usr/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
    @ubuntu:~$



Now my question is :-

- how the "hi" has been printed?

- what is the reason of the error as above printed

- if such an `initialize` definition is not allowed then why error has
not come after I ended with the `class` definition?

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