From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2005-11-26T21:23:12+09:00
Subject: Re: `finalize' method?

>>>>> "D" == Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com> writes:

D> What would you call such an approach? Encapsulating? I use this often 
D> enough that I think it would fit lovely in a module:

 A bad approach, at least for me.

D>          def self.new(*args)
D>            yield obj = __new__(*args)
D>            obj.finalize if obj.respond_to? :finalize
D>          end

 There is a convention in ruby : the method ::new must return an object of
 the class. You must change the name of the method if its return nil, or
 another object.


Guy Decoux