From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-10-24T22:22:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know (10/16/02)

Mauricio Fern?ndez <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Writing extensions is always quite unsafe, so we're already trusting the
> developer not to bomb Ruby's internals from C. It would be easy to add
> something like rb_set_dirty_bit() so things don't get nasty when
> keeping several references in C.

Hi batsman,

I think there are already existing Ruby applications/library/extensions
that are written in part in C (that have references to Ruby objects).  I
don't think we can expect all of them to add rb_set_dirty_bit().

Regards,

Bill