From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-10-10T23:34:55+09:00
Subject: Re: possible patch for singleton.rb


"Dave Thomas" <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote in message
news:m265wao0b1.fsf@zip.local.thomases.com...
> leikind@mova.org (Yuri Leikind) writes:

>     SomeClass.set_init_args(1, 2, 3)

I agree, I was about to post the same.

>     a = SomeClass.instance    -- will do   new(1, 2, 3)
>
>     b = SomeClass.instance    -- will reuse existing object
>
> It would be a runtime error to call set_init_args more than once or
> call it after the object has been created.

Or it could overwrite the init_args at the the discretion of the class.
has_init_args? could be used to test.

I think it shouldn't be a language feature, but a feature of the class being
implemented.

Mikkel