From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2003-09-13T05:06:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Should "new" methods do anything?


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On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 14:03, Philip Mak wrote:
> A programming style question:
>=20
> Should "new" methods actually do anything, or should they only perform
> initialization?
>=20
> For example, let's say I have a class called "Httpd" which runs an
> HTTP server. Should its interface be like this:
>=20
>     server =3D Httpd.new(:listen_port =3D> 80) # Initialize the server
>     server.run                             # Run it
>=20
> Or like this?
>=20
>     Httpd.new(:listen_port =3D> 80) # Initialize and run the server

Let it return self.

Then:

	Httpd.new(:listen_port =3D> 80).run

>=20
> The latter way is more streamlined, but feels bad for some reason that
> I can't quite put into words right now.

Well, perhaps you want to wait to run until you've checked some
things...


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