On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Jp Hastings-spital
<jphastings / gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian Candler wrote:
>> That's because you can't do Float.new either.
>
> So, out of interest, how does a Float get initialized (what function is
> called)? Or is that some fancy inbuilt something-or-other?
> Logically I'd assume I'd be able to do
>  ¨Âùßðã Ðåòãåîôáçå °®> or something along those lines. What do you reckon?
This is what happenes in numeric.c
    rb_cFloat  = rb_define_class("Float", rb_cNumeric);

    rb_undef_alloc_func(rb_cFloat);
    rb_undef_method(CLASS_OF(rb_cFloat), "new");

 Probably for some good reasons, however *you* are king

irb(main):001:0> class Float
irb(main):002:1> def self.new x
irb(main):003:2> Float( x )
irb(main):004:2> end
irb(main):005:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):006:0> class W < Float
irb(main):007:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):008:0> x=W::new 42
=> 42.0

How floats get initialized? I dunno, but it is my guess that the
parser generates some code very similar to what is in Kernel#Float.
But for some reason my grep skills elude me to find the code of
Kernel#Float.

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