From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-07-18T17:43:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Keyword "with"


"Richard Zidlicky" <rz@linux-m68k.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20030717142158.GB2481@linux-m68k.org...
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:36:51PM +0900, Peter Hickman wrote:
>
> > We've had programmers who wanted 'initialize' changed to 'new' so that
> > they would have less to type.
>
> this would be also good for another reason, people will no
> longer get confused by mistyping "s" and "z" in initialize ;)

I'd insist on having these still separated.  "new" is different from
"initialize": it allocates an instance and then invokes initialize which
is really only responsible for initializing.  It might have come more
handy to use "init" instead, but I guess changing that now will do a lot
of harm.  Btw: you can achieve that easily with

class Object
  alias old_initialize :initialize

  def initialize(*args, &block)
    old_initialize
    init(*args, &block)
  end
end

now you can do

class Foo
  def init(name)
    @name = name
  end
end

Regards

    robert