Initializing Objects

In the moment of birth

Let’s start over, and define a new class.

Remember how we said that objects can be thought of as two things: They know stuff, and they can do things.

Let’s define a class Person. People obviously also know things, and can do things.

Here’s how to define a shiny, new, empty class Person:

class Person
end

Again, that’s not a very useful class, but we can instantiate it, and ...