From: azrael@...
Date: 2006-04-14T02:25:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Equivalent of Java static code block in Ruby?

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:26:24AM +0900, Tanner Burson wrote:
> On 4/13/06, azrael@cream.org <azrael@cream.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I think all you would do by adding another division here, is confuse
> > > matters.  Currently I think it's pretty clear.
> > >
> >
> > I think I agree with you. One shouldn't do stuff simply because that's
> > the way Java does it. If anything, quite the opposite.
> >
> > Although, it's not true that all code in a class is executed at class
> > load time. Most of the code typically will only be called on
> > instantiation of an object, and sometimes it's helpful not to mix the
> > two up too thoroughly.
> 
> 
> Other than code inside of methods what are you referring to?
> 

Non-static initializers of instance variables too. Teh usual.

Martin