Re: Difference between 1.9.2 and 1.9.3

On Feb 21, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Peter Vandenabeele wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Bartosz Dziewo=C5=84ski =
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> That's because super with parentheses passes the same args your method
>=20
> I assume this was a typo, meaning "without" parentheses.
> =20
> was called with (like Dave said), and default Object#initialize method
> takes no arguments.
>=20
> But that's interesting. You might want to mention it at Ruby's bug
> tracker: bugs.ruby-lang.org - maybe the default initializer should
> take any number of args and just discard them.
>=20
> I think that is not a good idea. With the current implementation, it
> is still possible to add optional arguments later. If a method (e.g.
> initialize) would accept any number of arguments and just discard
> them, then later on, adding 1 or more optional arguments in the
> definition would suddenly cause bugs as these initially discarded
> arguments would then interpreted as a real, optional argument.
>=20
> Just write `super()` when calling the higher up initializer.
>=20
> HTH,
>=20
> Peter

I didn't know this actually made it into 1.9.2, but for a while, the =
default
initialize method took a variable number of args and just dropped them. =
It
was reverted a while back.

Best regards,
Florian