From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-02-05T20:39:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Ruby Syntax: 'initialize' versus 'init'

Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On 2/4/06, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Interesting you mention T, one question I always wanted to ask is:
>> Did the T object system influence the design of the Ruby object system?
>> (Or do you wish it did? ;))
>
> No.  I've heard it was pretty interesting but I didn't have any chance
> to get the detail more than a small article, which mentioned an
> intializer named "initialize".

It's very lightweight and almost trivial.  In fact, I once ported it
to Ruby:

http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2005/03/the-t-object-system-in-ruby.html

> matz.
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