From: "Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@...>
Date: 2001-05-02T01:28:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14500] Re: Overloading Constructors.

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:44:55PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> |If the c-extension does not call initialize from their "new" method, would
> |it be possible to overcome this without changing the extension by
> |overloading the "new" method in my derived class instead of overloading the
> |"initialize" method?
> 
> Invoke "initialize" implicitly.
> Here's an example:
> 
>   require "mysql.o"
>   class DbConnection < Mysql
>     def DbConnection.new(*args)
>       conn = super(*args)
>       conn.initialize(*args)
>       return conn
>     end
>     def initialize(host, db, user, pass)
>       print "In Constructor\n"
>     end
>   end
>   con = DbConnection.new("localhost","rubytest","root", "") 

Hi

This works, thank you!

But it has to be just "initialize" instead of "conn.initialize" - otherwise
ruby complaing about calling an private function unsing an expicit receiver.

greetings, Florian Pflug