From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2005-07-08T16:18:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Inheriting Array and slice() behaviour

William Morgan schrieb:
> So you're suggesting that #initialize be called (automatically) by 
> Array#slice, with no arguments?

I was thinking that that was the actual behaviour, but now I realized it
isn't. After looking at the source code and thinking about Matz' reply,
I'm not so sure anymore.

> And, presumably, an ArgumentError raised if it has required
> arguments?

See Austin's answer to that.

> What about #+, #reverse, #select, etc.?

Quite some time ago, there have been some discussions on ruby-talk about
this very subject. Maybe you can get more information about the pros and 
cons from there.

Regards,
Pit