On 07/05/2010, at 4:01 PM, Thibault Martin-Lagardette wrote:

> The reason #new currently behaves this way is to work for every object, 
> wether it's Ruby or Cocoa.
> For #new to work like you expect (which I agree totally makes sense), instead 
> of having #new aliasing [[obj alloc] init], we could alias it to [[obj alloc] 
> initialize], and have -initialize redirect to -init on Foundation objects.
> I don't know how expected that would be, or if it has any drawback...

perhaps I sounded a bit cranky in my last mail, if so my apologies...

you've pointed me to a perfectly viable workaround for my use case (thanks!), 
and macruby is still in development so I'll lay off the whinging that things 
aren't 100%... :)


cheers

Russell

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