From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2008-08-11T03:25:38+09:00
Subject: Re: why does the initialize method not return the last expression?

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 8:07 PM, aidy <aidy.lewis@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Why is this not the case for the initialize method?
>
> class Browser
>
>  def initialize
>    ie ||= Watir::IE.new
>  end
>
> end
>
> ie = Browser.new

Because you are not really calling initialize, you are calling new,
which is a different method. So you need to apply your reasoning to
#new.

new is a wrapper around initialize that returns an instance of the
class Browser, no matter what initialize returned.