Gavin Kistner
10/30/2006 10:29:00 PM
From: Robert Conn [mailto:bob.conn@btinternet.com]
> Gavin - I was able to test the code with your test class. I don't
> claim to fully understand it yet though.
Sorry about that...I wrote it for my own use (no comments, terrible
variable names) and then on a whim decided to post it in case someone
found it helpful.
> As a sidenote, I assume Ruby doesn't support overloaded methods? I
> initially tried to implement initialize with 2 methods, one with no
> parameters, one with the time parameter but it didn't work.
Not as such, but you can provide default values (which may involve
calculations, not just constants) for arguments. For example:
class FuzzyTime
def initialize( start_time = Time.new )
p start_time
end
end
FuzzyTime.new
#=> Mon Oct 30 15:28:13 -0700 2006
FuzzyTime.new( Time.at( 0 ) )
#=> Wed Dec 31 17:00:00 -0700 1969