Gary Wright wrote:
> 
> On Jan 19, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Marcin Miel¥Ê¥·y¥Ê§Ôki wrote:
> 
>> Marcin Raczkowski pisze:
>>> Mayby strange question but what happens when someone for example 
>>> types in "ruby" in irb?
>>>
>>> how string is initialized, is new/initialize even called?
>>>
>>> overwriting initialize works only when someone writes String.new()
>>>
>>
>> As a rule 'new' (which in turn calls initialize) is not called when 
>> objects are constructed by literals ("", {}, [], //, etc)
That is what i wanted to know exactly.

but i was wondering if any other method is called when literal is used?
anything that i can hook up into?