From: Adam Prescott <adam@...>
Date: 2011-06-20T23:06:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:37247] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #4893] Literal Instantiation breaks Object Model

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Lazaridis Ilias <ilias@lazaridis.com> wrote:
> "Object Model" as in
>
> ��* Design and implementation of a programming language's OO behaviour (classes, object, inheritance, mixin, ��methods, attributes, per-instance-behaviour etc.).
>
> Special part of this language's (ruby) "Object Model" is
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> ��* Primitive data types (integer, string, ...) are objects, and have related classes (Integer, String)
> ��* Classes (including those of the primitive data types) can be redefined at runtime.
>
> This is a flexible ability, but it has (in the current implementation) a limitation (essentially a bug):
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> ��* Limitation: a redefined initialize method is *not* called during "literal instantiation"
>

Other than some abstract violation of a model, what problem is this
causing? Do you have actual code in a practical situation for which
this "limitation" is an obstacle? What would this solve, and what
would be its direct, realisable benefit?