The initialize method on the class side will be called only when *the class* is initialised. You are thinking of the instance-side initialize method which is called each time you create an instance. <br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/29/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Volkmann</b> <<a href="mailto:mark@ociweb.com">mark@ociweb.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span class="q">On Sep 28, 2008, at 11:32 PM, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Sunday 28 Sep 2008 7:26:43 pm Mark Volkmann wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I think my main issue is scoping. I want to define a constant that is<br>associated with a class to avoid name conflicts.<br>
</blockquote>See classes Color, Cursor or Float for examples of scoped constants:<br> Color red<br> Cursor wait<br> Float pi<br><br>For constants that should be exposed to a few (but not all) classes, use pool<br>dictionaries.<br>
</blockquote><br></span>Thanks! This brings up another question. Where is a good place to initialize a constant? I see in the case of "Float pi" that it is held in a class variable that is initialized in the initialize method. Isn't it the case that the initialize method is only called if a Float object is created? Also, isn't it called every time a Float object is created? It seems that would mean if I followed that pattern for one of my own constants then I wouldn't be sure it was set and I'd pay the cost of setting it many times.<br>
<br>---<br><span class="sg">Mark Volkmann</span>
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