From: Ron Fox <fox@...>
Date: 2008-11-04T21:53:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Constructors

exiquio wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> On 03.11.2008 17:11, Stefano Crocco wrote:
>>
>>> I think the closest you can get to the Java syntax is this:
>>>
>>> def new o, *args
>>>   o.class == Class ? o.new(*args) : o
>>> end
>> Can someone please explain to me what we gain by doing this?
>>
>>  robert
> 
> I didn't mean to imply that Ruby needs this. It doesnt. I think that
> JavaScript is a very fascinating language and I am slowly trying to
> implement core JavaScript in Ruby, 
Why?  If purely as a learning project fine.. but remember language a 
is not language b no matter how much you try to coerce it to be. 
Idioms are different, patterns are different and so on.
another enjoyable language I am
> trying to learn. Hence the new operator. Just for the experience.



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Ron Fox
NSCL
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1321