From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-10-15T11:09:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Factory function like Array() for your own classes

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Sean O'Halpin wrote:

> I think this is a very natural idiom which doesn't seem to have any
> unwelcome side-effects. I'm curious what the general opinion is. It seems a
> cleaner solution than,say, aliasing [] to new (which I used to do a lot).
>
> So... what do you think?

not a bad idea

   harp:~ > cat a.rb
   Kernel::methods.grep(%r/[A-Z]/).each do |meth|
     obj = send meth, 42
     puts "#{ meth }(42) => #{ obj.inspect } - #{ obj.class }"
   end

   harp:~ > ruby a.rb
   Integer(42) => 42 - Fixnum
   Float(42) => 42.0 - Float
   String(42) => "42" - String
   Array(42) => [42] - Array

;-)


-a
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