From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-06-19T17:46:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple Initialize methods?

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:40:02PM +0900, Sam Griffith wrote:
> Nick,
> 
> A common idiom in type-less languages like Ruby, Smalltalk and others is

They are not type-less there are dynamically typed.
Doing 
   a = 1 + "1"
doesn't work in Ruby, but does in Perl, for example.

> that you see class methods that take the parameters specific to that usage.
> They then turn around and call an internal method that does the actual
> construction and then return the result. Much like the Factory pattern.
[...]
> And in Ruby, by the time you get to initialize, lots of error checking on
> the args could have already been done, etc. So that initializations need to
> do that is minimal.

This should all go into the Wiki :-)

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