This is a very nice idea.

My 2 cents,

Laurent

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:57 AM, _why <why / ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> I don't want to be indelicate and we can address this some other
> time.  Maybe a good place for an easter egg would be as a virtual
> global variable.  Global vars are a rather open namespace and if we
> kept the code in C none of the strings here would be allocated until
> needed.  I think ts would appreciate that efficiency, perhaps?
>
> Anyway, what do you think about an $ABOUT with a singleton?
>
>  $ABOUT = %{"Maybe because Ruby is a mansion, a backdoor is bigger than you expect."\n  - matz}
>  def $ABOUT.ts
>    %{"I know nothing, I just ask ruby what it do."\n  - Guy Decoux (1955 - 2008)}
>  end
>
> From [ruby-talk:20662] and [ruby-talk:5795], respectively.
>
> In ruby.c, this becomes:
>
>  static VALUE
>  rb_about_ts(VALUE self)
>  {
>    return rb_str_new2("\"I know nothing, I just ask ruby what it do.\"\n  - Guy Decoux (1955 - 2008)");
>  }
>
>  static VALUE
>  rb_about()
>  {
>    VALUE about = rb_str_new2("\"Maybe because Ruby is a mansion, a backdoor is bigger than you expect.\"\n  - matz");
>    rb_define_singleton_method(about, "ts", rb_about_ts, 0);
>    return about;
>  }
>
> Then, in ruby_prog_init:
>
>  rb_define_virtual_variable("$ABOUT", rb_about, 0);
>
> _why
>
>