Syntax sugar: treating an object like a method

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That would be fine too. But, if you'd do #2 (object assignment
method), to be consistent, you'd call the method "()=". I kind
of like simply "=" (and "+=", "-=", etc). But, I don't care
about it too much.

BTW, the you'd probably do this in Class instead (to handle it
for all classes):

class Class
alias : new # works now
alias :() new # your proposed null method name
alias :@ new # my proposed null method name (like -@ and +@)
end

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--- Brian Schröder <ruby.brian@gmail.com> wrote:

On 18/05/05, Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> * klass(*args) : you alias the null method to "new" so that
> this would be equivalent ot klass.new(*args). I tend to
forget
> the ".new" more often than I'd like to admit.
> [snip]

I don't know if I like this proposal, but in any case I'd
expect a syntax like:

class A
  def initialize(x)
    @x = x
  end
  
  def self.(x)
    self.new(x)
  end
  
  def self.()(x)
    self.new(x)
  end
end

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