From: "Pedro Côrte-Real" <pedro@...>
Date: 2006-07-25T20:17:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Defining a method with an argument with a default value

On 7/25/06, Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> First of all, you don't need the `if value' part -- when Ruby sees
> @value, it is immediately created, with the value nil, so there's no
> problem with giving it the value nil explicitly.

Yes, I knew that.

> Second, I believe you
> can just do this:
>
>    define_method(:initialize){|value| @value = value}
> If #initialize is called with no arguments, `value' will just be nil,
> although IRB may issue a warning.


That's what I have but it throws a warning and I wanted to shut it up.
Guess I'll have to do the eval.

Thanks,

Pedro.