From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2007-01-19T05:54:55+09:00
Subject: Re: auto assign arguments?

David Chelimsky schrieb:
> I find that I do a lot of this:
> 
> def initialize(thing, other)
>  @thing = thing
>  @other = other
> end
> 
> One thing I'd love to see in a future version of ruby is this;
> 
> def initialize(@thing, @other)
> end

Not that I would do it, but:

   class C
     define_method :initialize do |@x, @y|
     end
   end

   c = C.new 1, 2
   p c              # => #<C:0x2aeabd0 @y=2, @x=1>

I think Matz is planning to deprecate this feature.

Regards,
Pit