From: Matt Gushee <mgushee@...>
Date: 2002-11-03T11:58:24+09:00
Subject: Re: PullDownList -- failings are obvioius

Ooh, I think I said something dumb:

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:22:09AM +0900, Matt Gushee wrote:
> 
>   1) Initialize should return self, not @frame. 

and

> But this really confuses things:
> 
> >   @frame.pack
> >  end
> 
> In fact, that's not just un-Tk-like, it violates the expectations of
> just about every OO programmer on the planet, since it means that 
> 
>   PullDown.new
> 
> doesn't return an instance of PullDown!

Bzzzt!

You've probably realized it already, but that couldn't be true ...
otherwise you would have to explicitly return self every time you write
an initialize() method. I guess new is so written as to guarantee that 
it always returns self.

But I stand by the rest of what I said.

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