Yes I've noticed this and I've tried creating another method and called it
instead of init but got an error along the lines of method not defined even
though I made sure over and over that I wrote the method properly. However,
after seeing your reply, maybe I should take another look at my code, maybe
I missed something.

2012/6/14 Jorge Marques Pelizzoni <[email protected]>

> Khadija,
>
> You might have not noticed but there is no such thing as constructor
> methods proper in Oz. The language only requires that you should
> specify some method (with arguments) to be called upon creation of an
> object. That is the whole point of the second argument to New, and it
> can be virtually any method of your choice. So you can create as many
> constructors as you see fit. For example (please pardon my Oz. It's
> ages since I last wrote Oz programs):
>
> class C
>   attr someattr
>   meth init1
>      someattr := unit;
>   end
>   meth init2(V)
>      someattr := {NewCell V}
>   end
>   meth get($)
>       @someattr
>   end
> end
>
> C1 = {New C init1}
> C2 = {New C init2(10)}
>
> EVEN:
>
> C3 = {New C get(_)}
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jorge.
>
> 2012/6/14 Khadija EL MAHRSI <[email protected]>:
> > Hi,
> > what you said is close to what I meant: a way to create instances of a
> same
> > class that don't necessarily share the same number of passed arguments to
> > the init method (and eventually respond differently to the passed
> > arguments).
> > I've also thought about some of the solutions you've listed but to be
> honest
> > I thought it would be such a hassle when it could've been made alot
> easier
> > by allowing something close to multiple constructors where you could have
> > different initialization methods to call according to your need.
> > Thanks for the reply. I just wanted to make sure I had no other choice
> > before resorting to other solutions.
>
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