On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:22 AM, webwarrior <reg@webwarrior.ws> wrote:
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.
Ohhh yes. There is always a time for every Smalltalkers where you discover that doing super for class side initialize is not a good idea. Here was my time: http://forum.world.st/super-initialize-is-not-a-good-idea-for-Behaviors-td30...
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.
+1 to the documentation
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