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-rw-r--r--object.c17
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a8aa698276..bc4ac6910f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Jun 4 18:53:39 2008 Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+ * object.c (rb_obj_alloc): RDoc updated. a patch from Gaston
+ Ramos <ramos.gaston at gmail.com> in [ruby-core:17073].
+
Wed Jun 4 18:36:11 2008 Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>
* lib/rdoc.rb: massive spelling correction patch from Evan Farrar
diff --git a/object.c b/object.c
index 5d49b2ab6f..70e7f19833 100644
--- a/object.c
+++ b/object.c
@@ -1361,8 +1361,21 @@ rb_class_initialize(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE klass)
* call-seq:
* class.allocate() => obj
*
- * Allocates space for a new object of <i>class</i>'s class. The
- * returned object must be an instance of <i>class</i>.
+ * Allocates space for a new object of <i>class</i>'s class and does not
+ * call initialize on the new instance. The returned object must be an
+ * instance of <i>class</i>.
+ *
+ * klass = Class.new do
+ * def initialize(*args)
+ * @initialized = true
+ * end
+ *
+ * def initialized?
+ * @initialized || false
+ * end
+ * end
+ *
+ * klass.allocate.initialized? #=> false
*
*/