From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-12-19T05:41:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions


On Dec 18, 2003, at 14:25, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:11:55 +0900, Jim Frapper wrote:
>> - The ability to overload constructors.
>
> YAGNI. There is no method overloading at all in Ruby at this point --
> because Ruby isn't restricted by static typing, and in my experience, 
> it's
> not necessary. See my port of MIME::Types or Text::Format for how 
> multiple
> constructor forms can be provided in the singular mechanism -- and 
> it's not
> even necessarily the preferred way in Ruby.
>

You might want to scan

http://pragprog.com/pragdave/Practices/ConstructionMethods.rdoc,v

for my take on this.

Cheers

Dave