From: Gennady Bystritsky <bystr@...>
Date: 2002-12-02T15:27:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Validation during object creation


On Sunday, Dec 1, 2002, at 13:33 US/Pacific, Roman Rytov wrote:

> I'm a newcommer to Ruby and I haven't read completely the book yet, so
> excuse me for a very basic question.
>
> What's the way to signal to a NEW()'s caller that an object can't be
> created? To return NIL? To throw an exception?
>
>
> Roman
>
>
>

If I understand correctly what you need, you may want to place

private_class_method :new

somewhere in your class definition.

Gennady.