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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: Object constructor should be renamed
From:       Robert Klemme <shortcutter () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2018-08-20 14:25:17
Message-ID: CAM9pMnOxmt9n6hwWdVOuK0RcOKaPQ-b_h-vif1kzgxcxQaAM_g () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 9:23 AM Andy Jones <Andy.Jones@jameshall.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> If we had the language to do over again I would prefer "init" since (a) here in the \
> UK we don't spell that word with a Z and (b) I seem incapable of typing it \
> correctly, and when I misspell it, it's sometimes hard to debug.  ("Why is the \
> initialise method not being ... Oh.") 
> But of course we don't have the language to do over again, and renaming it is not a \
> thing we can do.

Even if renaming was possible, reusing a method name that is used in a
similar context but with different functionality would only cause
confusion as others have pointed out already.

Cheers

robert

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