In article <DKEMKMBKGIAIEKKBJOPOOEGICBAA.rich / infoether.com>,
Rich Kilmer <rich / infoether.com> wrote:
>Hey...just a note:
>
>I had a class that had defined a factory method like this:
>
>class Foo
>  def Foo.allocate(x,y,z)
>  end
>end
>
>It worked great under 1.6.5...but Matz added a new allocation
>system for 1.7.x and now uses #allocate.  It took me a while 
>to track down why my classes behavior changed.

Just curious: What does #allocate do in 1.7.x?

Phil