On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 10:17, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> .sub __init method
>
> is AFAIK the constructor. It gets called automatically for all parent
> classes and the class itself and is the best place to put attributes for
> objects in place and set these to their default values.
I personally want to pass arguments to the initializer ("constructor"
really isn't the right term). I expect HLLs will want to do the same.
If we set a convention that the initializer is always called BUILD or
CREAT(E), that's fine. I'd like to set or follow a wise convention now.
-- c
