[Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs

Christine Wolfe cwdw01 at earthlink.net
Sun Nov 8 19:33:58 UTC 2009


Thanks - I thought it odd that I had to explicitly call this initialize.  I
went back and took out the call to initialize just to be sure that was what
making the difference and it was. So for some reason my SymbolArray>>new is
not calling the method unlike all my other ones.  If I find that it is
something that I've done, I'll be sure to let the forum know.

-----Original Message-----
From: Randal L. Schwartz [mailto:merlyn at stonehenge.com] 
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 10:55 AM
To: Christine Wolfe
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Subject: Re: [Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs

>>>>> "Christine" == Christine Wolfe <cwdw01 at earthlink.net> writes:

Christine> For sure I'm going to start now - I don't see where it could ever
hurt
Christine> anything if I initialize twice.

It can, so I wouldn't conclude so quickly, or cargo-cult this one
without some more research.

Behavior>>#new calls #initialize, so someone broke the chain between there
and your classes of interest by overriding #new without respecting the
existing protocol.

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