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October 14, 2010 16:22
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| ruby-1.9.2-p0 > class Foo; end | |
| #=> nil | |
| ruby-1.9.2-p0 > Foo.new('bar') | |
| #=> #<Foo:0x00000100974e50> | |
| ruby-1.9.2-p0 > class Foo; end | |
| => nil | |
| ruby-1.9.2-p0 > Foo.new(1,2) | |
| => #<Foo:0x000001009dd4a0> | |
| ruby-1.9.2-p0 > Foo.new(1,2,3, :a => 'b') | |
| => #<Foo:0x0000010181b918> | |
| ruby-1.9.2-p0 > class Foo; def initialize; end; end | |
| => nil | |
| ruby-1.9.2-p0 > Foo.new(1,2,3, :a => 'b') | |
| ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (4 for 0) | |
| from (irb):5:in `initialize' | |
| from (irb):6:in `new' | |
| from (irb):6 | |
| from /Users/david/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/bin/irb:17:in `<main>' |
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So what do you think should be the arity on Object#new?
Author
0, as it is in ruby-1.8.
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The problem, btw, is that the earlier examples allow you to pass in args that are unexpected - not that the last example raises an error (that's what should happen in the earlier examples, in my view).