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' ]
Isnât the usual way to do that to register the class in the shutdown list and implement #shutdown: ? Norbert