From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2003-12-16T00:50:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Subclassing Array

Hans Fugal wrote:

>Am I on the right track? Does anyone know which methods I would have to
>override?
>  
>

Well, looking at the ruby sources, it appears that Array is completely 
implemented in C (which makes sense, given that it's one of the core 
classes).  However, this means that each of the operations on Array 
don't call a ruby method, they call the corresponding C function 
directly.  Thus, it doesn't appear that you can simply override one 
single method and change the behavior of multiple other methods. :(  
Unfortunate, but it makes for much faster Array methods, I suppose.

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Jamis Buck
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