From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-09-29T06:27:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Best name for "this method" ?

Hi --

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:

> On Tuesday 28 September 2004 05:44 am, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> >   foo.methods[:new, :protected]   # if you need combination
> 
> This line's got me thinking... How does one define a class [] constructor? For 
> example Hash can be use like this:
> 
>   Hash[:a=>1,:b=>2 ] 

class C
  def C.[](...)
  ...
  end
end

> And then I start to wonder why we can't just use the class name like a method?
> 
>   Hash(:a=>1, :b=>2)

You can define such methods; for example, there's Integer.  A number
of people (including me :-) aren't big fans of method names that begin
with uppercase letters, but it can be done.  


David

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David A. Black
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