On 15 Dec 2014, at 13:42, Jean-Daniel Dupas <mail...@xenonium.com> wrote:
>> Apart from completely re-thinking his approach. E.g. NSImageRep, AFAIK, 
>> simply has each image representation subclass add itself to an NSArray from 
>> its +initialize method. I'd think that'd be less fragile than walking the 
>> entire class list.
> 
> I fully agree on that. Relying on class iteration is generally a design flaw. 
> It is too fragile to be used in a reliable and futur proof way.
> But I don’t think you can rely on +initialize to register subclasses as 
> initialize will not be called until the someone try to use the target class 
> (or one of it’s subclass).

Doh! You're right! I mixed up +initialize and +load here.
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