From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-06-16T17:45:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Using extend for initialization settings?

On 6/16/07, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>

>
> #to_module is just a convenience so one can pass in a container module
> or a hash (or anything else that responds to #to_module). It's
> basically the same as when you accept a string but go ahead and
> generalize it to accept anything that responds to #to_s. In other
> words, it's a better approach than
>
>   def initialize(settings)
>     case settings
>     when Module
>       ...
>     when Hash
>       ...
>
> T.
Thanks for the clarification, I thaught it was part of the concept and
got confused.
It might indeed be very useful as described above.

Robert



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