From: Iain Barnett <iainspeed@...>
Date: 2010-08-27T02:49:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Initialise


On 26 Aug 2010, at 15:54, Brian Candler wrote:

> 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.

Thanks, I'll give that a shot.

> 
>> 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 
> :-)

I was thinking of using Perl6 to write Ruby2.0 :)

Regards
Iain