From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-08-26T23:54:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Initialise

class Object
  alias :old_initialize :initialize
  def initialize(*args,&blk)
    if respond_to? :initialise
      initialise(*args,&blk)
    else
      old_initialize(*args,&blk)
    end
  end
end

class Foo
  def initialize(n)
    @n = n
  end
end

class Bar
  def initialise(m)
    @m = m
  end
end

p Foo.new(123)
p Bar.new(456)

You get a warning about redefining initialize, but it seems to work.

> I suppose my only recourse now is to start 
> hacking on the Ruby source and get my patch submitted in time for Ruby 
> 2.0 :)

That will be released some time between perl 6 and hell freezing over 
:-)
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