From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-10-17T23:07:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple constructors in a .c extension?

Hi Enric,

I think what Gavin meant was to replace "Test.new_from_file" with
"Test.from_file" using a text editor.

There is an online version of the "Programming Ruby" book (which is great
for tutorial and reference, especially for beginners) at
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/.  One of the chapters is "Built-in
Classes and Methods", and in there you will find the classes Time and
Thread with all their methods.

Regards,

Bill
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Enric Lafont <enric@1smart.com> wrote:
> Gavin Sinclair wrote:

>>Not for me.  Just rename to method to from_file, and the client code reads
>>
>>  test_var = Test.from_file('some_file')
>>
>>Not too bad, is it?  I would go for Test.new('file') (I'd probably use a File
>>object, actually).  Anyway, there's plenty of precendent:
>>
>>  Time.now
>>  Time.local
>>  Thread.current
>>  ...
>>  
>>
> Sorry to ask, I'm a newbie with Ruby, and I don't understand what means

> "Just rename to method to from_file"

> What method must I rename ? And how to do it ? I've done a search on the 
> ruby/lib sources and I can not find where Time.now is defined.

> Thanks

> Enric