[Pharo-dev] managing modification of class initialization methods

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' ] cheers -ben