From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-07-19T12:47:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Default constructor

In article <200307182302.26069.spectra@debian.org>,
Pablo Lorenzzoni  <spectra@debian.org> wrote:
>Hello!
>
>class Klass
>	attr_accessor :att1, :att2
>	def initialize(att1, att2)
>		@att1 = att1
>		@att2 = att2
>	end
>	....
>end
>
>Is it just me or the construction above is rather common? Is there such a 
>thing as a default cosntructor? Something that could turn that into
>
>class Klass
>	attr_accessor :att1, att2
>	initializer(att1,att2)
>end
>
>or even
>
>class Klass
>	attr_accessor :att1, :att2
>	initializer
>end
>
>Since we have short cuts as attr_accessor, attr_writer and attr_reader, 
>shouldn't we have a constructor short cut?
>

This is an idea that's been floating around:

class Klass
  attr_accessor :att1, :att2
  def initialize(@att1,@att2)
  end
end

....but alas, Matz doesn't like it :-(  says it's ugly.  
I think it looks quite nice actually.  Clean, concise, no duplications.

Phil