[Pharo-users] Unintuitive behavior of class-side initialize

As class is just an object in Smalltalk, it would be reasonable to believe that #initialize message is always sent to class on creation. However, that's not true. It is only sent to classes that redefine #initialize. Also sending super initialize may lead to problems. None of these is mentioned in documentation (I assume Pahro By Example is the official one). It only says that #initialize is sent when class is loaded into memory. I think either this behavior should be made more consistent, or excplicitly mentioned in the docs. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Unintuitive-behavior-of-class-side-initialize-tp477504... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.