From: Mike Wyer <mw@...>
Date: 2002-03-19T01:44:33+09:00
Subject: Re: language addition: automatic 'new'

Vardhan Varma <vardhan.v@parsectech.com> writes:

> But i thought method _have_ to start with [a-z] and not [A-Z]
> Integer() etc. must be doing some trick ( like calling an

Nasty hack:

def foobar(arg)
  FooBar.new(arg)
end

alias FooBar foobar

FooBar(20) # calls FooBar.new(20)
ie you can alias an upper case identifier to a lowercase method.

Cheers,
Mike
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