From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-10-15T12:47:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Factory function like Array() for your own classes

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

> On 10/15/05, Dave Burt <dave@burt.id.au> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Why not just use ..new? Why does new need an alias?
>
> It doesn't ~need~ an alias. It's just quite handy sometimes when you
> are creating lots of nested objects to avoid having to type new all
> the time. For example, in a report DSL, you could use something like:
>
>  r = Report(
>    :header => Header( :title => "My report" ),
>    :body   => Body( :rows => Query(:sql => "SELECT * FROM Supplier"))
>    )
>
> instead of
>
>  r = Report.new(
>    :header => Header.new( :title => "My report" ),
>    :body   => Body.new( :rows => Query.new(:sql => "SELECT * FROM Supplier"))
>    )
>
> Not a big gain, but in my opinion, the .new in the second example is
> just adding noise. It's a matter of taste I guess.

i'm with you - i do it all the time in my own code ;-)

-a
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