From: Love U Ruby <lists@...>
Date: 2013-02-18T06:26:46+09:00
Subject: Re: What is Ruby's default constructor?

Stefano Crocco wrote in post #1097453:

>
> There was nothing "wrong" in your code before the 'begin'.
>
> What happened is that you redefined Object.new not to return a new
> object, but
> to return whatever
>
> p 'hi'
>
> returned (that is, the string 'hi'). This obviously messes up
> everything: IRB
> tried to create an instance of a certain class (let's call it X) by
> using
> X.new, which is the same as Object.new. However, this didn't return an
> instance of X, but a string. Then IRB tried to call the #set_backtrace
> method
> on the returned object (which should have been an instance of X but was
> instead a string). Since a string doesn't have a set_backtrace method,
> you get
> the error.

As per your above explanation it seems and definitely an allocation to 
the memory has been made and only the reference has been lost. From my 
piece code - can it be possible to print also that memory address like 
"object_id" like the `p "hi" ` ?

Thanks.

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