From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-11-22T07:42:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple constructors?

Hi --

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Paul Brannan wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 05:18:14AM +0900, dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
> > I think the privacy is gate-kept separately by each object's singleton
> > class:
>
> Oh, good point.
>
> This discussion inspired me to go rewrite some code I wrote the day I
> started learning Ruby.  I decided to use instance_eval to call the
> private initialize_with_xxx methods.  Do you think that's a reasonable
> alternative?

It does seem more streamlined.


David

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