Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01998] Re: no Fixnum#new ?"
    on 00/03/17, "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker / jump.net> writes:

|> I like init too. If we do go with it though, we'll need something like
|> a full release cycle where Ruby warns if it comes across an instance
|> method called init--something like:
|>
|>   warning: in the next release of Ruby method 'init' will acquire
|>            mystic significance and this code probably won't work
|>
|> Just to give people time to switch over.
|
|I also want to vote for 'init'.

Hmm, thank you for votes.

But changing a fundamental method name like `initialize' makes me
nervous.  It may require thousands of programs to be rewritten.

							matz.