From: Vardhan Varma <vardhan.v@...>
Date: 2002-03-18T14:50:13+09:00
Subject: RE: language addition: automatic 'new'

But i thought method _have_ to start with [a-z] and not [A-Z]
Integer() etc. must be doing some trick ( like calling an
overloaded ctor (-; )
irb(main):119:0> def Blah ; end ; def blah ; end
nil
irb(main):120:0> Blah
NameError: uninitialized constant Blah
	from (irb):120
irb(main):121:0> blah
nil


> -----Original Message-----
> From: matz@ruby-lang.org [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 15:19
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: language addition: automatic 'new'
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In message "language addition: automatic 'new'"
>     on 02/03/15, Vardhan Varma <vardhan.v@parsectech.com> writes:
> 
> | I wrote my first >1K ruby program over the week,
> |and it occured to me, it would be great if
> |   Klass(param)
> | be converted to 
> |   Klass.new(param)
> |  Automagically ...
> 
> Hmm.. you are lazy enough to choose C(args) over  C.new(args).
> Don't worry, laziness is a virtue of a programmer.
> 
> But I'm afraid it conflicts with already existing methods like
> Integer(), String(), and Array().
> 
> 							matz.
>