From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-02-19T04:50:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Builtins RDoc tarball?

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:23:02AM +0900, Gavin Kistner wrote:
> For example, I have:
> 
> # Can be called in one of five ways:
> # * <tt>MutableTime.new( )</tt> -- same as #now
> # * <tt>MutableTime.new( someString )</tt> -- same as #parse
> # * <tt>MutableTime.new( someSeconds )</tt> -- same as #at
> # * <tt>MutableTime.new( year, month, ... )</tt> -- same as #local
> # * <tt>MutableTime.new( aTimeOrMutableTime )</tt> -- creates a new 
> MutableTime based off of
> # the supplied Time or MutableTime object
> 
> def initialize( dateString_Seconds_Time_orYear = nil , *dateTimePieces )
> 

This is commonly solved with several 'constructors'

class << self
	def new_from_string(string); ... new(...) end
	def new_from_seconds(seconds); ... end
	...
end

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