From: "Jan E." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-06-29T17:37:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Interactions between 'new' and 'initialize' ?

Cees Zeelenberg wrote in post #1066604:
> I agree that redefining 'new' for Child should work, but I don't think
> Child should inherit 'new' from Parent. The arguments to 'new' should be
> determined by its own 'initialize' method which takes two arguments.

Well, "new" is a normal class method, so it will behave just like any 
other class methods.



> In the mean time I think I have solved my problem by patching the
> 'initialize' instance method rather than 'new'. That at least does not
> seem to have any side effects.

Yes, and it makes much more sense. Redefining "new" seems like a very 
bad idea to me, because it will alter the core functionalities of Ruby. 
Even if it works, it will be very surprising for other people.

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