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Hi all,

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[ruby-talk:01913] Re: Minor irritation, can't figure out how to patch it though!

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-03-16 17:32:48 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1913
Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01893] Re: Minor irritation, can't figure out how to patch it though!"
    on 00/03/16, mengx@nielsenmedia.com <mengx@nielsenmedia.com> writes:

|I do not have problem with either of the spellings. But I always wonder 
|if Pythonic syntax 
|
|def __init__
|
|or 
|
|def init   (I assume this syntax has been considered)
|
|can be used as alternative to the current one
|since Ruby's tradition is to provide similar syntax to other
|languages in order to attract more users.

Personally I do not like lines around identifiers, except for synonym
to avoid conflict.  Anyway `init' sounds good to me.  I wish I've
chosen it from the beginning.

My concern is changing it may crash some existing programs.

							matz.

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