Issue #8404 has been reported by Hanmac (Hans Mackowiak). ---------------------------------------- Feature #8404: virtual, hooked or read only global variabels for ruby only code too https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8404 Author: Hanmac (Hans Mackowiak) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: currently pure virtual or hooked global variables can only be defined with cFunctions like rb_define_virtual_variable i think it would be cool if this would be possible in Ruby code too -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/