On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Jonathan Lang <datawea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why must we use 'submethod BUILD' instead of 'method BUILD'? > Is it some sort of chicken-and-egg dilemma?
from S12: "Submethods are for declaring infrastructural methods that shouldn't be inherited by subclasses, such as initializers ... only the methods are visible to derived classes via inheritance. A submethod is called only when a method call is dispatched directly to the current class." It isn't chicken-and-egg, it's safety. The BUILD submethod doesn't get used for anything other than the class it is defined in, even if that class is derived from. -y
