From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-03-19T14:08:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Class.allocate callback

Hi,

In message "Class.allocate callback"
    on 04/03/19, Anders Engström <aengstrom@gnejs.net> writes:

|I want to get a callback whenever an object is created in the vm. To do
|this I have overridden 'Class.new', and it works as long as objects are
|created through Object.new. But - I also want to get callbacks when
|objects are created during unmarshalling of serialized data.. I thought
|that I could override Class.allocate to get a callback when this happens
|- but I never get the callback.
|
|Is this a bug?

Not really a bug.  Hooking every instance allocation might too slow
for the current implementation.  Sometimes I have to choose
performance over flexibility.

Marshal.load takes optional second argument, which is a proc called
for each unmarshalled object.


							matz.