What about slots ? Do they have any special initialiazation ? On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 at 17:54, Christophe Demarey <christophe.dema...@inria.fr> wrote:
> yes, we miss a package initialize method ... > > Le 8 déc. 2015 à 16:35, Mariano Martinez Peck a écrit : > > Dimitris, > > Relying in class side initialize is not very cool. Mostly, because it's > hard to know EXACTLY when Monticello will send it. For sure it's the first > time you load that class. But then it could be if such method changes > again. But maybe too if you clear some Monticello caches... > Also, you may have dependencies (of order execution) with other class side > initialize. So...another approaches you can take (depending on your needs) > is lazy class var getters with ifNil: or if you have a > ConfigurationOfYourApp, you can define #postLoadDoIts in which you can > perform the whole initialization of your app. Or ...from the #postLoadDoIts > simply delegate to a class MyAppInitialize. > > I do a bit of all of them hahaha. > > Cheers, > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> ok that means I cannot rely on it and I will have to initialize my class >> variables in specific methods. No problem, ifNil here I come :) >> >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 12:24 AM Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Dimitris, >>> >>> > On 07 Dec 2015, at 23:12, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > I have read that a metaclass (class side of the class) is initialised >>> when its loaded to the image by monticello, Are there any other cases when >>> the initialize method of the the metaclass is being called ? >>> >>> Correct: a class #initialize is called when its code is loaded, but only >>> if it is not yet present or different in source code from what is already >>> present (this last point will bite you one day ;-). >>> >>> Else, the #initialize should be called manually (for example to reload >>> some caches, or reset some system state). This sometimes happens in >>> #postLoads or install scripts. >>> >>> I am not aware of any automatic invocations. >>> >>> Sven >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > > -- > Mariano > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com > > >
