From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2004-09-29T09:41:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Best name for "this method" ?

On Sep 28, 2004, at 6:57 PM, trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

> Why would I want to  write a constructor like Hash[], when it could 
> just as well be written  Hash()? And in fact I don't --I cannot think 
> of a single time that I have
> used the later notation. Why? *Not* because it isn't useful, but 
> rather b/c
> it obfuscates my code b/c is looks like an Array or Hash lookup, and 
> not like
> calling a constructor method.

I'm not a fan of Class(), but I have to agree with the above complaint. 
  Why Hash[] makes a new Hash is beyond me.  I'm not a fan of that 
interface.

James Edward Gray II