From: Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Date: 2006-12-18T04:59:07+09:00
Subject: Re: with and without initialize method


> Try the program with this line:
> 
>    X.new
> 
> removed or commented out.  You'll get the same output.  The reason is
> that the statement:
> 
>    puts "x"
> 
> is executed when the class definition is executed.  puts "y", however,
> is inside an instance method (initialize), so it isn't executed until
> there's an instance (and in this case, since it's an
> automatically-called constructor, you don't have to call it
> explicitly).


Thanks David. Now I get the point.

Li


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