I wrote another more in-depth (but potentially less useful to you) mail about this further down the thread, but I thought it'd be good to point this out near the top:
I think the /self.bless(|%args)!initialize/ idiom is a work-around for /submethod TWEAK/ not yet existing when this code was written. /TWEAK/ works in a very similar manner, with these differences: 1) Your "/self/" isn't fully built when /TWEAK/ runs, therefore you can't call regular methods on it 2) It will even be executed when a subclass of your class gets constructed, whereas there's no simple way to get access to !initialize from a subclass. 3) TWEAK gets passed the named parameters that bless was called with /method new/ is useful only if you want to take positional parameters for the .new — the default new you get from /Mu/ only accepts named arguments and passes them on as-is to /self.bless/. They then get passed to every /BUILD/ and /TWEAK/ in the inheritance chain. The named parameters don't have to correspond to attribute names, as you can do any private attribute assignment in /TWEAK/ that you like.// I hope that helps - Timo
