From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2006-07-08T21:27:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Easy Pathname

Sean O'Halpin wrote:
> I don't want to hijack this thread but I do think it would be nice if
> Klass() were a synonym for Klass.new(). As far as I know, this
> wouldn't conflict with anything in the Ruby standard lib (apart from
> Array(), String() and maybe some others which I forget). I personally
> use it all the time for my own classes.

Right now those functions are used as casting/conversion operators, and I think 
you should continue that "standard" if you defined your own Klass() methods. 
There's little point in having 2 ways of doing MyClass.new really.

Daniel