From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2008-06-28T00:23:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it ellegant to use a global variable to store a Logger object?

El Viernes, 27 de Junio de 2008, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) escribió:
> module ArtDecomp class Config
>
> class << self
>
>   attr_accessor :debug, :processes, :qu_method, :qv_method, :silicone
>
>   def init
>     @debug     = false
>     @processes = 1
>     @qu_method = :graph_merger
>     @qv_method = :graph_merger
>     @silicone  = Set[Arch[4,2], Arch[5,1]]
>   end
>
>   def log string, run, runs, dawn
>     left = ((Time.now - dawn)/run*(runs - run)).ceil
>     $stderr << " [#{string} #{runs - run} #{left}s] " if Config.debug
>   end
>
>   def max_pins
>     @silicone.map{|arch| arch.pins}.max
>   end
>
>   def max_pons
>     @silicone.map{|arch| arch.pons}.max
>   end
>
>   alias reset init
>
> end
>
> end end
>
> ArtDecomp::Config.init


The only I don't like about the above code is the need of using .init method 
explicitely. It could be nice if "initialize" would also work automatically 
in some way, is not possible? (of course I understand that we are not 
creating an instance here).

Thanks a lot.
-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo