[Newbies] Howto initialize class variables

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Schenkman <alex at schenkman.info> writes:

Alex> Bert your are super!
Alex> * never call "super initialize" on the class side

Alex>  Why? I thought it was "polite" to do it, =)

It breaks things by double initializing them.

The code loaders run initialize automatically.  So when the parent
class was loaded, it was already initialize.  You've just asked it
to do that again.

On the *instance* side, you *must* call super initialize, because
you don't get another chance to do that.

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