From: transfire@...
Date: 2006-07-15T08:58:33+09:00
Subject: Alternate initializers or alternate class?

Jan Molic recently contacted me about a slighlty modified version of
his OrderedHash class that I distribute in Facets, the Dictionary
class. There are a few variations of this class initself and Jan
originally provided these via a subclass. I, on the other, thought
alternate initializers would be better.

Which is the best approach?

Ex.

  class AutoOrderHash < OrderedHash

     def new(*args)
        super(*args){ |h,k| h[k] = self.class.new }
     end

  end

vs.

  class OrderHash

     def self.auto(*args)
        new(*args){ |h,k| h[k] = self.class.new }
     end

  end

Thanks,
T.