From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2010-01-17T23:38:42+09:00
Subject: Re: when to use * arguments?

On 08.01.2010 13:00, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
>  It's something like
>
>  class Object
 > class <<self
 > def new *args
 > instance = allocate_space
>  instance.initialize *args      # <<<
 > instance
 >     end
 >   end
 > end

To nitpick (I know it isn't relevant to the discussion at hand), it's 
actually
more something like:

class Class # instance method of Class, not singleton method of Object
   def new *args, &blk  # Can take (and will pass) a block, too
     # Calls Class#allocate (or a particular class's override of that 
method)
     instance = allocate
     instance.send(:initialize, *args, &blk) # initialize is a private 
method
     instance
   end
end

Except, of course, it's written in C.