From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-06-12T15:24:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple Initialize methods?

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:54:14PM +0900, Mark Wilson wrote:
> I thought I had suggested something like this in my earlier message 
> citing how set.rb defines a second constructor ( '[ ]' ) that 
> references the initialize method. Your suggested approach, however, 
> seems better and clearer.
> 
> Should approaches like this (and others that come to be accepted as 
> best practices) be used in all "official" parts of Ruby that are 
> written in Ruby?

There's already for instance File.new and File.open.

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