From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2008-08-11T03:25:30+09:00
Subject: Re: why does the initialize method not return the last expression?

aidy wrote:
> In Ruby the last expression in a method is returned.
>
> Why is this not the case for the initialize method?

It is.

class Foo
  def initialize()
    5
  end
end
foo = Foo.send :allocate
foo.send :initialize
#=> 5

So you see that initialize does indeed return 5 here. Foo.new however will not 
return 5. This is quite simply due to the fact that new explicitly returns 
the newly created object, i.e. the call to initialize is not the last thing 
in new, so it's not the return value of new.

HTH,
Sebastian
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