From: Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner@...>
Date: 2006-10-31T07:28:59+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Fuzzy Time (#99)

From: Robert Conn [mailto:bob.conn@btinternet.com] 
> Gavin - I was able to test the code with your test class.  I don't  
> claim to fully understand it yet though.

Sorry about that...I wrote it for my own use (no comments, terrible
variable names) and then on a whim decided to post it in case someone
found it helpful.


> As a sidenote, I assume Ruby doesn't support overloaded methods?  I  
> initially tried to implement initialize with 2 methods, one with no  
> parameters, one with the time parameter but it didn't work.

Not as such, but you can provide default values (which may involve
calculations, not just constants) for arguments. For example:

class FuzzyTime
  def initialize( start_time = Time.new )
    p start_time
  end
end

FuzzyTime.new
#=> Mon Oct 30 15:28:13 -0700 2006

FuzzyTime.new( Time.at( 0 ) )
#=> Wed Dec 31 17:00:00 -0700 1969