> Am 04.03.2019 um 03:46 schrieb Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com>:
>
> In relation to developing sample solutions for an Exercism exercise, the following observation was made about class initialization...
>
> > class is initialized on load - and not when you modify it - so this can be very confusing for users��
>
> My first thought was to wonder if Quality Assistant could track whether a class initialize method had been run after it was modified,
> and display alerts.
>
> Alternatively, I wonder if a reasonable pattern would be to couple class-side lazy initialization
> with a pragma to reset a variable when the method is saved...
>
>�� �� ��MyClass class >> referenceData
>�� �� �� �� ��<onSaveResetVariable: ReferenceData>
>�� �� �� �� ��^ ReferenceData := ReferenceData ifNil: [ 'reference data' ]
>
Isn���t the usual way to do that to register the class in the shutdown list and implement #shutdown: ?
To me a good minute to work out why I didn't understand you.
Sorry, I meant <onMethodSaveResetVariable: ReferenceData>
So when 'reference data' is updated and the modified method is saved,
the variable gets lazy initialized *again* with the new definition.��
hope that is more clear,
cheers -ben