Even though Object>>#initialize doesn't do anything, I still recommend calling "super initialize" just for. If you're doing an allocation anyway, one super call ot a method that does nothing will not be a performance issue. But I feel is it is better-form to call super. On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:

Hi guys

I browsed a lot of code with jb friday and I saw that lot of classes that predate the automatic initialize introduction (squeak 3.7) do not have a nice initialize methods.  In particular old tools, have a particular style. I wanted to raise this point. I would really like to have classes that take responsibilities to initialize objects with decent/default instance variables. It will make the code easier to understand and evolve. If you have some (counter) arguments I'm all ears.

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