From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2008-03-28T05:24:33+09:00
Subject: Re: pypes

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Tangentially, why did the trick of defining methods with the same name
>  as classes, to delegate to Class.new, fall out of favour?
>
>     tripler          = Transformer.new {|val| val * 3}
>
>  would read more nicely as
>
>     tripler          = Transformer {|val| val * 3}
>
>  with def Transformer(x); Transformer.new(x); end
>
>  I remember it being a commoner practice a few years ago.
>
>  martin
>
Some of us oldies still use it. But I seem to remember some people
objected last time I suggested it (ruby-talk[160664]).

Regards,
Sean