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 _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel