From: "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>
Date: 2008-06-30T03:31:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it ellegant to use a global variable to store a Logger object?

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I=C3=B1aki Baz Castillo:

>> ara.t.howard:

>>> ruby classes are evaluated top down at load time so, to
>>> achieve the effect of init you just need to delete some code
>> =E2=80=A6
>>> and the 'init' code is called at load time.

> The problem here is that those code is runned in load time, so if that
> code depends on other project libraries or classes you must take care
> of loading them first. This is not problem when calling "init" after
> loading all the classes or when using "normal" objects (XXXX.new).

Right. I also figured out that in my case, I need to be able to reset
the config class to its default state when testing it, so I need an
init/reset method anyway.

-- Shot
--=20
I don't want to call a destructor on my objects, I want to call a destroyer.
Gozer has come for your memory, little PersistentNode!    -- Joel Gluth, asr

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