From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2004-07-03T01:20:51+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 23763-23840 Hi, In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 23763-23840" on 04/07/03, Ben Giddings writes: |Is there some reason it couldn't be a factory method of a URI class, |making the example like: | |URI.create("http://www.example.com").read We already have a factory method, "parse", that is shorter than "create". We were talking about saving a few strokes. matz.