From: Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@...>
Date: 2008-11-27T02:03:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Class setter

On Nov 26, 10:59 am, Sebastian Hungerecker <sep...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> That's not really similar. The only connection between new and initialize is
> that new calls initialize. There is no rule that a method that calls another
> method should return the return value of that method (given that new calls
> two methods, that'd be impossible anyway). So new returning the newly created
> object even though it calls initialize is perfectly ordinary. The behaviour
> of setters, however, is a special case.

Good point and clarification. It just seems similar to me because
normal usage involves defining #initialize and calling .new, but it's
as you say -- one method calls the other and doesn't use that return
value.

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-yossef