Hi Peter
there is no stupid question! Only people afraid to ask.
Stupidity is when you ask three times the same question.
In this list we can ask all the stupid question we want.
So thanks for taking the risk :)
automatic initialize= calling automatically initialize when calling new
avoid to have to all the time write
Box class>>new
^ super new initialize ; yourself
kind of desastrous for newbies. You know after two lectures you have to nearly
explain metaclasses, and deep super + method lookup...
In Squeak 3.7 we got a chance to have an agreement to have
Behavior>> new
^ self basicNew initialize
Object>>initialize
^ self
and some shortcuting behavior on array to speed up the system.
it makes so many things much much nicer.
On Feb 12, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Stéphane Ducasse
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> another point, what about automatic initialize?
> At one point in the past VW (eliot) was really for introducing it in VW since
> it would not cost
> anything in presence of the JIT.
> Dolphin people did it on Model but they told me that if they could they would
> remove it.
> and this is a really important change to lower the entry level and burden of
> newcomers.
>
> Now because of "compatibility" we have to code without it for me this is a
> drawback.
>
> I know this is probably a stupid question, but rather than miss something
> important, I'll take that risk :-p
>
> What do you mean by "automatic initialize"?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Peter
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