[Newbies] Re: new and initialize

[Ben Coman]

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 3:37 AM, Joseph Alotta <joseph.alotta at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On May 10, 2016, at 12:45 PM, Ron Teitelbaum [via Smalltalk] <[hidden
>> email]> wrote:
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>> Hi Joe,
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>> Excellent question.  Try this.
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>> Object new.
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>> Highlight it and do debug it.   Click "Into" to go into the #new method.
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>> Notice the implementation of #new.
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>> You should be able to see there that #initialize is called automatically.
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>> Also for extra points notice what class new is implemented on.
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> Behavior
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>>  What method should you call to skip initialize?
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> basicNew
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> More questions:
>                  why isn’t my initialize method not running or running
> without setting variables?

Is your initialize method on the class-side or the instance-side ?
At the very very start of using Squeak this would catch me up.  It
soon became instinctive to notice which side I was working on.

cheers -ben