From: Wayne Blair <wayne.blair@...>
Date: 2001-05-15T11:10:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15133] Re: initialize overload

I read a few posts that mentioned method overloading might be coming in 1.7
or a future release.  Not sure if that's accurate, or if it would extend to
constructor overloading.  I would certainly like to see it, too.

Wayne

"Jim Freeze" <jim@freeze.org> wrote in message
news:Pine.BSF.4.32.0105141755450.91657-100000@www.stelesys.com...
> Ok, the synapsis aren't firing so well today.
> How do I overload a constructor to get the effect:
>
> m1 = Myclass.new(some_object)
> m2 = Myclass.new("text", "number")
>
> I cannot do:
>
> class Myclass
>  def initialize(o)
>     # use o
>  end
>  def initiaize(type, level)
>     # use type and level
>  end
> end
>
>
> Do I have to do something like:
>
> class Myclass
>  def initialize(a, b=nil)
>    if Type == a.type
>      #do this
>    else
>      #do that
>    end
>  end
> end
>
> Thanks
>
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