From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2005-11-25T04:29:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Legal symbol names and generics

On 11/24/05, John Lam <drjflam@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes - this is by far the most straightforward way of making this happen.
> While I don't like "magic method names" like .specialize(), I really don't
> think there's a way of hacking type information into Ruby's syntax :( And I
> need to preserve using [] as well ...
>
> I'll see what I can't do to hack these ideas into the rewrite of my bridge.
>
> Cheers,
> -John
> http://www.iunknown.com
>

You could use a factory method - method names and constants are disjoint.
For example,

def ChannelFactory(type_info)
  ChannelFactory.specialise(type_info)
end

channel = ChannelFactory(IOutputChannel).new

Regards,

Sean