Hi,

In message "Re: Redefining rb_str_init()"
    on Mon, 4 Dec 2006 08:55:08 +0900, "Daniel Berger" <djberg96 / gmail.com> writes:

|What do I need to change to make the constructor shortcut work as
|expected?

I don't think it's a good idea to invoke function for every string
allocation.  But if you really want to do, modify str_alloc() in
string.c.

In general, #initialize is not called for literals.

							matz.